First Day of School
As all parents know your children’s first day at school is hard, maybe even harder for the parents as the children. Add to the mix that you couldn’t speak the language and although they had been having lessons in the Uk their language skills were very very basic.
Both the girls were keen to attend school and although they were understandably nervous they were well up for the challenge. Barry took Mysty and I took Loreena because of all the issues I had had getting her to go into school in the Uk.
We were shown which lines to join and a few other parents waited in line with their children.
Then the bell, well more of a siren went and it was time for the children to go in and the adults to melt away.
Barry continued in with Mysty, but for Loreena I felt it would be better if I handed her to her new teacher and left. As we reached the door the teacher who was waiting to take the now crying and shaking Loreena by the hand, at that moment a beautiful smiling little girl appeared and took Loreena’s other hand. I took my chance and left for a bit of cry.
It turns out that the little girl was an orphan and her sister was in Mysty’s class and had done the same thing for her. Both these wonderful children had taken it on themselves to sit the new girls next to them and look after them.
They would be strong friends for that first term, right up to the time when the sisters were adopted and went to live in a city far away with their new parents.
I was lucky enough to meet them with their new family before they left and you could see that they already loved the girls and would give them a wonderful life.
We as a family will never forget the kindness given by two beautiful children who had suffered so much.
The girls came running out of school with smiling faces that day, even though they didn’t understand much, they were ok. The system was based around play so the perfect environment for my girls to learn the language quickly.
Even at that young age, they decided that at school they would only ever talk to each other in Spanish.
I was also paying for them to have school dinners, so they would become more integrated with both the other students, culture and food.