Kids off to college tomorrow!
That’s right, 24 hours more and our kids will be off to college! I know, time flies doesn’t it.
On Monday morning we’ll be taking Hannah and Nathanael to Colegio del Bosque. Ok, it’s not really a college – just a kids’ school – basically for ages 2-15 (the word “colegio” can mean college or school). But whatever it is, they’re pretty excited!
What we’re really thankful for is that we were able to find most of what we needed to buy before school started. Take a look at this:
These are all school supplies. Now, you need to realize three things: (1) These weren’t items we bought on a whim because it was their first day of school. These were all items required by the school! That’s right, we got a list of 60 or so different items to buy! (2) This isn’t even everything – we took this picture Friday, and were still buying things yesterday, and are still short a few things! (3) Not only did we have to buy things, some things needed to be sewed, covered, labelled, etc. A lot of work!
Some of the items we needed to buy included: A triangle (instrument), Kleenex, paints (certain colours, certain brand), an abacus, cinnamon tape, crêpe paper, bouncy ball, work books, text books, a shoe box, uniforms, crayons, wet wipes….
Suffice to say, after trying to understand the list, find the stores, order things, check back, try other stores, sew fold and tape we’re really glad to be (more or less) done!
Hannah and Nathanael will both be going part time, all in Spanish, and they will be continuing their English education at home. We’re getting some books from Canada, thanks to Greyhound and some friends – hopefully we’ll have those soon.
It will be interesting juggling our classes and their classes (which will not always be at the same times as each other, and may change from week to week) and classes at home – but it should be fun too! 😉 And in only ten or twenty years they’ll be all done with school….
20 August 2007 @ 2:05 pm
I had to give you a link to a similar post from another family in central Mexico:
http://joelandjanette.typepad.com/janettes_journal/2007/08/back-to-school-.html
And they’re not the only ones that had to draw a line on 100 pages – we had some friends here in Cuernavaca that told us the same thing. Yikes!
20 August 2007 @ 5:57 pm
Wow! What a lotta stuff!! No wonder you guys needed lots of $$ $$ support to go to Mexico! Even work boots I see!! Mind you, the Bible does say that it’s good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth!!
20 August 2007 @ 7:29 pm
No, no work boots. 😉 Just imagine if we had chosen one of the more expensive schools – this one is more on the low end.
21 August 2007 @ 4:35 pm
Here’s another family in Cuernavaca talking about their experiences getting their daughter ready for school:
http://atreasureinclay.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/it-really-is-true/
4 September 2007 @ 10:35 am
I’m not really looking to start a collection of related posts here, but I just had to add one more – this one from Chile. It sounds just like Mexico (except she shops at Jumbo and I shop at MEGA):
http://garcias2chile.blogspot.com/2007/08/shopping-at-jumbo.html
Check out the list of school supplies she scanned – looks a lot like ours!
Chile
28 January 2009 @ 7:03 pm
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