The Beginning Of A New Chapter

I really didn't think I will blog so soon after my 'Bye-Bye' post end of last year. Not with a hundred different things at that top of my mind (and if you know me by now, you will know that they are ALL related to work because I will be back to work tomorrow after a two week break! *sob, sob!!*) .

The holidays officially ended this morning for the Bkworms when we had to get up at the crack of dawn (and it shall be so from now on until the next school term break) because Little Bkworm had to attend an orientation session for new secondary school students at her school this morning. Parents had to be 'orientated' too when the Discipline Mistress launched into her lecture on the merit and demerit system which is currently being practiced in that school and woe befall any student who breaks any laws listed in the little 'green' book (that being the color of the school rules and regulation booklet!).

After the 'lecture', the students went to their respective classes to get acquainted with their new surroundings, leaving the parents milling around outside the classroom looking in at the son or daughter from the windows of the class. Not surprisingly, most of the students kept to themselves, not having made friends with each other yet since all are new to the school. The parents seemed to be making more noise outside, each looking more lost than their child in the class!

"Do we have to pay the school fees today?"

"When are they distributing the new school books?"

"Is the session over? When can my child go home?"

"Do we have to submit these forms (believe me, it was quite a stack!) by today?"

Like everyone else, I looked into the class and saw Little Bkworm talking to the girl she was sitting with. She was fortunate because that girl happened to be her classmate from her primary school, so she was spared the first day blues of sitting among strangers. But children being children, I am sure these 'strangers' will become friends by the end of the week.

For a moment as I watched her from behind the windows, I felt a wave of emotion coming over me. There she was, in her new turquoise colored pinafore and crisp white shirt, beginning a new chapter of her life. Her studies will get tougher, no doubt and she will face new challenges as she steps into adolescence together with other girls and boys of her age. Growing up together.


It's too much of me, isn't it, taking a picture of her like that? LOL!! I can't help it. I am so proud of her, yet so overwhelmed at the same time.

It just seemed like yesterday when I took her by her little hand and walked with her into her first class in Primary 1. She sat down, turned to an equally small sized seven year old seated next to her and they started chatting! A minute later, she turned to me an asked me to wait outside because she didn't need me in the class with her! That independent streak is still evident in her life and I hope that will stand her in good stead as she learns new skills in these next few years of life as a secondary school student.

As for me, staying on top of things will be my immediate goal so as not to let the perfectionist in me stress me bald before the end of the year. Now, that would be bald, sorry, I mean bad, wouldn't it?