"Mommy, I looooooove Jacqui"... says Emily, referring to Jonty's 2007 teacher. Never mind that she's only seen Jacqui about 3 times and spoken 2 words to her in her life: Emily loves Jacqui. Jonty then proceeded to inform me that Jacqui is in fact a better teacher than I ever was, and that he hopes his new teacher, Sue, will be as good as Jacqui.
All this love and admiration for his nursery school teachers boded well for the start of the 2008 school year. As we arrived he raced up to Jacqui (who is also the principal of the school) and hugged her, then rushed off to his new classroom and hugged Sue. Then raced off to the playground to find all his friends. No stress there!
One child was crying as his mother tried to pry his fingers off her shin, trying to leave the premises. Jonty asked me: "why is that boy crying?"
After a few minutes I asked him if it was OK if I left him as I needed to go - silly question!!!! He said "Well, I don't want to leave, but you can go." Unfortunately Emily did not want to leave either. But I managed to bribe her with promises of rooibos tea and rusks if she came home with me.
How hard its going to be to leave his school, his friends, his teachers, and head back to Thailand!
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