First Post of 2008 – Yoki’s First Day of School – Again…

My family has been here for a little over three months now. During that time, Yoki was home schooled by Mom and has learned great new things that will make his formal schooling a lot easier for at least the next year and a half as Vio has been teaching him lessons at K-2 levels already.

Today (January 2, 2008), Yoki’s official day school starts. He’s excited as hell to start!


PCF Radin Mas

A couple of days after Christmas, we went to the school to buy his uniform, while we were talking to the teachers, Yoki just couldn’t stop roaming around and admiring all the things he can play with and the friends he’ll be able to play with, in fact, he didn’t want to leave the school that day.


Uniform

His nursery classes starts at 8A.M. until 10A.M, which is tough – for me. You see, I rarely wake up before 9, so to ask me (and Yoki) to wake up at around 7 and get going before 8A.M. will be a challenge. Good thing I’ve just committed myself to lift weights again, so my workout schedule will coincide with his school hours, at least all of us will be awake by 7A.M.


Day Break

As usual, Mom woke up around 6 to prepare breakfast for us, I woke up shortly after that, then woke up Yoki around 7A.M.


Good Morning!

Luckily, as soon as we told him “Time for school! Time for school!” (like what Nemo told Marlin at the start of Finding Nemo), he woke up and slowly got up to take a shower.


Trying to Wake Up

Half-asleep, we dressed him up in his cute school uniform along with his jacket as it was chilly this morning. Still half-asleep, he ate his breakfast porridge while playing his harmonica.


Breakfast


Musically Inclined


Keep the Smile Shiny

 

Did I mention the school is just a 5-minute walk away from our block? There’s no rush as long as we leave around quarter to 8.


Waiting for Mom

When we arrived, there were some kids and parents around already. The younger ones (same age as Yokes) were a bit anxious, while the older ones (Kinder) were more excited since they’ve done this before. Yoki spent 2+ months in a small playschool before we moved to Singapore, he really missed it after we left, naturally, he was psyched to get started again.


Open Please!


Hi!

 

Being 108 cm tall, he is bigger than most of the kids his age, as expected, he walked up to a pair of siblings and started talking to them using his usual “Hi, I’m Yoki…”. The kids were very friendly and they were rushing to see what’s inside the school even before the front door opened.


New Friends


Can’t Wait…

When one of the kindergarten teacher opened the front door, she called the kinder students to line up and enter the classroom. Yoki’s new “friends” walked in and he followed suit. When the Nursery teacher started calling her students, Yoki was nowhere to be found. He went with the kinder kids as they were more his “size”.


Come In!


The Principal


Off We Go!


The Frenzy


Where’s Yoki? (Went inside this Kindergarten class)

We called him out and he gleefully lined up as instructed, but couldn’t help himself reading the letters and numbers presented along the corridor.


Hi Teacher!


The Tall One

Then they paired up and walked into the classroom.


“HoldYour Partner Two by Two…”

Mom and Dad walked around the park while waiting for his class to finish, and when the time came to pick him up, he was all smiles as he waves at us from the front door.


Waiting


I’m out!

We asked him if he liked school and if he had fun, he said yes.

Then we asked, “What did teacher tell you today?”. He proudly answered: “Teacher told me to listen and sit down!”

That was the exact same thing Teacher Karen told him in Manila when he first started going to school! LOL!


“I Had Fun!”

Yoki’s now a big boy…


Mom is Teary Eyed