Our little pioneer

Last night we got to visit PJ’s new school.  We saw her new classrooms, met her new teachers, checked out her table and all the wonderful things that the teachers have put up on the walls.

To be honest, my heart started beating a lot faster when we walked in and everything was in Chinese.  The teachers spoke to the kids only in Chinese.  And then they spoke to us with VERY thick accents.   I still don’t know how to pronounce her teacher’s names.

At one point, PJ walked up to me with a book in hand and asked me to read it to her, I opened it up and realized I couldn’t.  I DON’T KNOW CHINESE. 

Of course having all the Chinese in the room should have been a “no brainer”.  What was I expecting?  But seeing it written, being surrounded by the unfamiliar shapes and sounds caught me a little off guard. 

I am nervous for her, for her long days, for her experience, for her new friends, for her different school, her different bus, the distance she must travel, the things she will know that I will not and can not help her with and for everything else that I can’t think here to mention.

But what I know is this…she will embrace this wonderful experience with everything shes got, make it her own and amaze us all.

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