Goodbye Bang Bang, Hello Cheyanne!

Hi all, this is me outside my new school waiting for class to start. The company that runs the playgroup program has a class near to where I stay but there was no vacancy for me because Mama registered me too late. In fact, my parents were already relieved that there was a vacancy at a centre some bus stops away.

A couple of weeks after school started, Mama called the company to request for a transfer for me to attend class at the centre nearer to our place and was told I will be put on a waiting list which she agreed.

Thanks be to God! 2 days after school re-opened for classes since Chinese New Year, Mama received a call that I can be transferred. Now, Mama does not have to take me to school in a bus but we walk to school every morning. More accurately, Mama walks to school with me in her arms as it's much faster to travel this way though Mama tries to let me walk as much as possible.

By then, I had already spent more than a month in my previous school. I could remember and say my teacher's name and the names of 2 of my classmates. Bang Bang is the nickname of the boy from China. He is supposed to be 2 years old but speak much better than me and a little bigger in size than me. Mama observed he is a boy who likes to converse though he speaks mainly in Mandarin.

Adi is the name of another boy. If Mama is not mistaken, he often cries when he has to come to school.

We did not have a class picture taken together but Bang Bang is most likely the one carrying the blue backpack and Adi is perhaps the boy on the right. Yours sincerely was pressing the buttons on the vending machine. Mama did not pay much attention when she took this picture. Papa told her to do so as a record of the Vending Machine Gang. :D

When I first started going to the school nearer to our place, Mama will tell me Bang Bang is in the old school. After a week or so, I got the idea of "Bang Bang, old school".

My new teacher's name is Teacher Sharon. Mama thinks she is a Christian as she wears a cross pendant. She seems more experienced than Teacher Usha by Mama's observation.

Every morning, Teacher Sharon will sit at the door and check my temperature and limbs for fever and blisters which are signs of hand-foot-mouth disease. She will greet each child good morning and if the child does not respond, she will say the word "morning" again, mouthing it more intentionally for the child to follow. Mama likes it that she is teaching even when doing something so unrelated to teaching. Me? I soon learnt to say "Good morning" to Teacher Sharon when she greets me.

Now that I am in my new school, the first name of my friend that I could say is Cheyanne. She is a cute little girl whom Mama knows exist because she was the only one left with me after everyone has gone home and Mama was in the class doing some paperwork with Teacher Sharon on my first day in the new school. Mama found out this girl's name was Cheyanne but she has no idea why of all names, I had started saying this name in association to my new school. Then again, Mama has never seen me playing with the girls in my class and so, it's not like Cheyanne is my special friend.

Mama imagines my Aunty Cheyanne in US will be so happy that the first classmate's name I said is Cheyanne. Hello, Cheyanne. :D