After a long search for Changton’s first school, mom enrolled Changton at Tiger Tots. It’s an international pre-school with a good reputation as it has been opened for 30 years. Best of all, it’s so close to our house, like a throwing a stone distance from our house to his school. The excitement of sending Changton to school had built up few months before his school actually started! Yep, it was purely mom who was excited about it!
First off, what should Changton be called at school? As he already has Thai (Changton and Thirakhun) and Chinese name (Hsiao, Hong-Po) and that these names are meaningful, appropriate to his date and time of birth, mom doesn’t want Changton to have another English name. Too many identities for him. So in the end, we settled for Thirakhun, his Thai, First name: Thi-ra-Khun. May be his friends can conveniently call him Thira. More importantly, Thirakhun was the name on his Thai passport used to eligible enroll Changton into his school. So Thirakhun that is! The name part was decided, mom then planned her schedule and everything to accommodate Changton’s school schedule. Then she went shopping, searching for his FIRST bag pack, shoes, water bottle, snack menu, etc.
Then the moment of truth! Dad fell sick and was hospitalized on Changton’s orientation week (August 17-21), then Changton fell sick on his first school week (August 24-Sept 2). Worries, frustration, and exhaustion totally wiped out happiness and excitement of Changton’s first pre-school. Then into the third week of school, mom fell sick! Yes, sometimes things weren’t go as planned and this fact remains the fact! whether it’s in Past, Present or Future Tense…Live goes on.
So here we are smiling at each other, and to you :-) As dad is still at his early stage of recovering and mom’s still struggle to adjust her life in Taiwan, we are now counting one Happy Day at a time. Shall we :-) ?
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