I wonder how my 1st day in kindergarten was (I didn't go to nursery or playgroup, so kindergarten was my 1st school).
I don't remember, and thats a BIG shame.
I wonder if I was one of those scared ones, who clung on to their Moms like its their only lifeline. I wonder if was the more robust ones, who went straight for the toys corners ignoring everything and everyone else. Or if I was the bookworm, and headed straight for the Library corner. I wonder if I cried for Mummy, each time the teacher asked me to participate in the activities, or if any of my so-called classmates came within 1 metre of me. I wonder if my Mummy stayed throughout the 1st day of school (since my PAP kindergarten was only 2 hours per session?). I wonder if I made friends easily that day, or if I happened to bite, pinch or punch any of them for iritating me? I also wonder if I thought the teachers (who were trying their very best to get us all settled in our new classes) were old fools, singing and clapping and dancing when all the children wanted to do was go running home. I wonder if any of the teachers were more than nice to me than the others cos I was cuter (LOL). I wonder if they liked my ponytail curls (the 2 Mummy painfully curled each morning before school, much to my very vocal disagreement). Or if the there were even any 1 teacher that I liked more than the others - cos I don't even remember my teachers anymore?
I wondered soooooo manyyyyy times today.
So I've decided.
When my kid gets ready for the 1st day of school - I am sooooo going to be the photographer-videographer that I never really EVER was. I don't care if my kid's teachers would be annoyed. I don't care if other parents would find me OTT. I don't even care if my husband thinks I'm dramatic.
I just don't want my child to wonder, like I did today!
That all said, yeap - the 1st day of school was EXACTLY like what the senior teachers prepped me up for. Too bad not all the newbie kids fell in love with me at first sight (in between smiling my sweetest smile, and then seeing me bare my teeth at the older, more 'active' kids, poor Newbies couldn't figure if I was a saint, or the witch LOL), but hey, that's where creativity (or you could say dancing
ourselves silly) plays a HUGE part.
That, or the Rochers they were bribed with.
:p