First Day of School

The first day of school was postponed due to a level 8 Typhoon status (I will write about that later), so the kids started school on Thursday.  Here were their reactions upon returning home:

PJ

"I don't like this school." Why not?  "Because I have 1500 hours of homework everyday!"

I should let you know that the kids all received Mac AirBooks prior to the start of school.  When the first day was canceled PJ received e-mails from two of his teachers with homework to be completed before the next day.  The teachers take full advantage of all of the students having computers and expect them to check their e-mail regularly for homework updates.

Grace

How was your day? "Ehh. I hate stairs."

The way the school is set-up the high school sits above the middle school.  We live closest to the high school entrance so Grace and Meg enter through the high school and then have to go down several flights of stairs to the middle school (at least 5).  This means that at the end of the day they have to climb up those stairs.  Grace had soccer try-outs immediately following her first day.  Our household goods delivery was on the first day of school and all of her soccer equipment was in that delivery.  She had to hurry home to get her stuff and then hurry back to school.  The fields are on the very bottom level of the middle school.  It is hot and humid in Hong Kong.  Once she cooled down a couple of hours after soccer try-outs she said her first day was fine:)

Meg

How was your day? With a big smile on her face "Good".  Anyone who knows my Meg knows this was not expected!  She made friends and liked all of her teachers, except maybe her Mandarin teacher.