Aly’s busy year…

…and it’s only August.  Her Chinese school is so kiasu(wanting to be first), std 6 has tuition(tutoring) M-S.  Most schls only have compulsory tuition 3 times a week.  All these tuitions(extra classes are for the std 6 UPSR exams).  Students in Malaysia in std 6 all take this national test before they enter secondary school.    Besides that, dh and I put her in private tuition for Mandarin, Math and Bahasa Melayu.  I know, poor girl.  In the beginning of the year, I really didn’t know how she would coup with 12+hrs of schl.  She seems to be adjusting quite well.  In order not to overwhelm her so much,we had to suspend her piano lessons until after the UPSR.  There  was no way to fit it in on Saturdays.  The weekdays are schl, schl tuition, and private tuition.  She was home before dark only on Tuesday at 4:30pm.  I couldn’t possibly drive to PJ and back on a weeknight.  She didn’t want to give up swimming classes on the weekends or Chinese orchestra, so had to cut piano until she was less busy.  Now, she’s good enough to join the swim team and she has to practice 3 out of 5 days.  I’m never going to get any rest either.  The thing is, we don’t wnat to discourage her.  She’s really fast in the pool and she’s a very competitive person.  She has to bear with this schedule until the UPSR is over.  At the end of September, she’ll have lots of free time.  After those exams, the school doesn’t really give them any class work.  From my friends who has older kids, they said it’s quite relaxed.  Some kids take games and gadgits to school and some don’t even show up at all.  For Alyssa, she’ll go back to piano and maybe some enrichment classes.  We’ll see.  She got accepted into Tenby after taking the assessment test.  We will check if she needs to prepare for any courses that maybe was not offered in a Chinese school.  She might need a little help in geography  or other subjects.

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