Caroleen’s Treasures

Today Ella wore her school uniform the very first time. We bought the fabric last week of June and it’s been almost a month before we were able to get it from the seamstress. It was a little hard to juggle the money that we are getting from our blogs and our little business after a couple of trips to our hometown last month and all of us getting sick. We have to get the most important things on top of the list (doctor’s check-up, laboratories and medicines) and so the uniforms were put on the bottom. Ella was so patient and understanding. She was actually the only one in her class who is not in school uniform and though she is not forced to wear one since uniforms are not compulsory for public school pupils it could still make a different impact to a child. To make her not feel odd, we dress her each day with decent clothes that were referred to as “nice malling clothes” by the teacher. We didn’t take it offensively but rather proudly that at least our daughter wears nice clothes. Those are not expensive ones and they are not new either.

Funny thing is that when Ella asked me one day when could we get her uniforms, I told her not anytime soon since the seamstress got sick. The other day the teacher asked her when could she wear a uniform and she told her the same thing. What’s more funny is that Donald approached the teacher and gave her the same reason. :lol: Poor seamstress!

Now she will never ran out of school uniform since she has 4 pairs of school uniforms and one PE uniform.

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Proudly wearing her new uniform. The daddy was as excited as her to see her daughter wear this to school as soon as we got it from the seamstress. Honestly, this was the very reason why I chose Trento West Central Elementary School. The uniform is not the usual green skirt and white blouse of the public schools here. When I was in elementary, our skirt was royal blue then it was changed to maroon. Here in this province they have green. All are not very pleasant to me. Glad that at Ella’s school they also offer better curriculum and programs aside from having the best public school uniform I’ve seen. So it’s a double plus.

As promised, I will post photos of Ella’s study table and uniform. I also forgot to tell you that I made her a shoe pocket from my box of rags.
 

We are crossing our fingers that she will really study

 too excited to go to school in her new uniform

Her new shoe pocket, hope this is the answer on my headache from scattered shoes.

 I even personalized it by printing her name.

I am so tired and I wanted to sleep. We have just arrived from Tagum, 2 hours away from here….and while we stopped by at one of the bus terminals, we finally got a chance to take a photo of the Filipino Skylab.

A motorcycle that can ferry 12 passengers.

In this case, the driver carries 7 sacks of bananas and two passengers. I cannot imagine myself riding in that vehicle, I might turn very pale in fright and call all the saints in heaven. LOL But Ella will really be over the moon when she’ll will have a ride in this because it gives her a lot of air! She told us we will get off the bus and just ride there because the bus we are in has no auto air conditioning. She cannot stand without it or some fresh..cool air.