The 4-year long journey of Hong En in BPMCK is comingto an end... While Hong Yu will continue there for another 2 years til his graduation, I will miss bringing both of them to school together very much. Perhaps it is the thought of them growing up too fast, but I find myself wishing this very last week of school for 2019 would not end so fast.
Hong En has seen tremendous growth in the last 4 years... he was still very much a crybaby during the N1, and had to take weeks to settle into the new norm that was Nursery.... over the last 3 and a 1/2 years, I have never felt so wistful about the school year coming to an end.
After the end of this week, the next time I bring any of them to school will be so different. The younger one will not have his older brother with him in school, and the bigger one will have to wait for 2 years before they can go to school together again. How I wish the end of the week doesn't come so quickly. However, time stops for no one, and I will make the best of the remainder of this week, and make the last few days of bringing them to school count.
Along with Yuling, I am incredibly proud of the 2 of them. Hong En, despite having never been chosen to represent his class in any form of speech for all the 4 years, had been chosen by his Mandarin teacher to be the Mandarin valedictorian. It is a very long speech and preperations had started in July to get him to commit the whole speech into memory. He performed a flawless recital of the speech, all while my heart was pumping with such vigor that I was acutely aware that my blood pressure was probably off the scales for that duration. I was worried (unfounded, as it turns out, but one can't be sure until things have finished) the speech would get messed up for any reason, undoing months of preperation. A few days later at the PTC, both his teacjers in class gave him glowing reviews as a student and the Mandarin teacher especially praised him to be a pillar of his class, and expressed pride that she had chosen the right representative, and rarely, a make, to be the valedictorian. Like I said: We couldn't be prouder as parents.
For the younger one, he was also chosen to introduce his class for the concert item, though his was very much shorter. From what I understand from his teachers, he basically committed the speech to memory in almost no time, and was able to recite it with confidence and accuracy, so much so that the other representative, his partner, Victoria, was seeming lost when he was not around. According to his teachers, he is knowlegeable beyong his level and has shown an aptitude to learn things very quickly. Same here: We couldn't be prouder a parents.
Today, both their rewards for their efforts will arrive in the form of Monster Jam 1:24 trucks. These rewards are absolutely well deserved, and I know they will enjoy them.
Even though they did very well, that isn't the main thing really, instead, they have shown that they have tried their best, and that is worth celebrating more than the results. Like I said: I couldn't be prouder of them.
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