Un saludo!

Donald decided that today will be the last day of Ella’s tutorial class. Not that she is doing excellent in reading but we don’t have budget for it anymore. If I were to decide, I would want her to continue it until classes starts on June 1st. I am quite happy with the result of sacrificing to pay for it because Ella could now read. Well not that fast and not that excellent but at least she could confidently take the test on Monday. The reason why we chose to sign her up for a paid tutorial class instead of the free summer class is because we are in a hurry. We are running out of time. The summer class is packed with almost 40 kids so there would be a little chance of her to learn as fast as needed. See, when I brought her to take the Special Education (SPED) entrance test last Monday she could not read a word. Of course she can read some of it but I know she is not so sure of herself. If I would assess it, the test is for the third grade and if only it wasn’t written on the upper portion that it is for the 1st grade, I would have asked the teacher if she has given Ella the wrong test papers. We will let her take the test on Monday and let’s see what happens.

Anyway, Donald went back to school in the afternoon to pay for our fine of P200 plus a (P50 donation) for not participating in ”Brigada Eskwela”.  It is the parent’s activity before school year starts where they do repairs of chairs and other things that needs to be fixed; clean the classrooms and the whole school and I do not know what else. This is good so the kids won’t be spending days cleaning before they start the actual class. I have been to public school before and I could still recall how the school looks. Weeds have grown everywhere and we spent so many days trying to get everything back in order. The government announced on national tv that Brigada Eskwela is not compulsory so we didn’t mind about it because the government official said so. If only we knew that the public schools have their own rules, Donald could have joined the fathers there who are cutting the grasses including the roses in the flower beds (which reminds me of Daddy who would include my mom’s roses in the garden when cutting the grass) since he goes there each day for the past 10 days.  To ease the little annoyance that I am feeling, I just thought about it this way……yeah it is not cumpulsory so parents who chose NOT to join will pay a P200 fine. hahahaha! Also they are asking for donations of P50. I thought I could give whatever amount when asked for a donation then why do they name the price? I could have dropped P100 in the donation box instead of just P50. hahahaha! In fairness to the teachers, they are just doing their superior’s order. I have no bitter feelings towards them and the school because in the first place this is where I wanted Ella to enroll. Not only because of the quality of education but because of the uniform. hahahaha! They have a shade of blue uniform with a pattern like that of Ella’s uniform in Kindergarten. I love it because I won’t have to deal with dingy whites.

On the other note, the project that I am talking about last time might not be materialized on the expected date so I am keeping myself busy with a little training on my new online job. My boss is Spanish and it’s funny that one time he sent me an email intended for her Spanish assitant and my coworker Cecilia. Of course it is written in Spanish and I nervously copied the whole content and translated the whole email in google. Thankfully nothing bad in there…he just said I have worked for him last year as virtual assistant and that I already knew all the process of the project. So for the next days and hopefully months and years, I will be working for a Spanish boss and Spanish coworker. So cute each time he sends me email with a greetings, un saludo! Just got my assignment from Cecilia, have to work on it before the night ends. See yah again!

Tags: Brigada Eskwela, Ella, school, Spanish

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