And so it begins…. PSLE got real for us this week onwards. BB & GG had their Prelims Orals this week with English on Thursday/Friday and Hindi yesterday.

GG said she went slightly out of point for English but Hindi was easy. BB as he is wont to say said both orals were ‘OK’!

One happy news. Last week while we were Facetiming with my parents and sis, S came home with the mail. There was an envelope from the school we applied for DSA for GG. I took it saying, “It’s probably a rejection letter” and opened it. But it was an invite for an audition to the school. We had applied under an aesthetics domain to this girls school and so next week she has to go audition for a spot in the school. You should have seen GG’s face when she saw the letter – she was literally jumping with joy – and all this while my family was watching from the other side of the world! Actually they got a bit worried on hearing GG shout, but, of course, were very happy for her.

Quite a bit of children I know have gotten to the next round at BB’s dream school and I am still upset about that. But I need to take that into my stride and focus on the exams. Hopefully BB scores well enough to chance shot number 2 at the schools where he didn’t make it. Otherwise we have identified another school, quite unknown actually, but which has a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) niche programme with an emphasis on Aerospace, not too far. Let’s see what BB does now.