Gabrielle
this is my first entry after almost 5 years of laziness...
so many things have changed since my last post. we now reside in vancouver, canada. I have a 4-year old daughter named anna renee gabrielle.
So... i'm back!
i am scribbling this inside fleetwood community center library. passing time as i wait for my daughter's class to be over.
it's gabbie's 3rd day in her once-a-week socialization class. so far, she is having a blast. i did not expect her to be this enthusiastic, this excited to go to class. since she learned from me that she would be going to a socialization class, there's not a day when she would not ask me when she could go to school. it's really funny because after i have decided to enroll her online for the class 3 weeks earlier, i saw the slot slowly but steadily getting filled-up. to my surprise, the day before the first day of class, i saw that there were still 8 out of 9 slots left on the website.
i was kind of upset and started thinking that the rest of the kids had their enrolement cancelled by their parents. but something inside was telling me i was in for a surprise. so instead of canceling gabbie's schedule (i was planning to do it early the next morning since i could not cancel online anymore), i decided to go ahead and to just bring gabbie to attend the class anyways.
gabbie was all dressed up and excited the next morning for her first day at school. when we got to fleetwood community center, i saw a kids lined up in front of room no. 2, which was where gabbie's class was supposed to be in. i asked one of the parents there and she told me that her daight would be attending the same class. after a few minutes of anxious waiting (which to gabbie was an eternity already), tow middle-aged ladies, an east indian and a filipina, ushered the kids in. they were teachers jinny and janette. they were the teachers of the class.
i stayed outside the door where i could watch gabbie as she eagerly participated in the class, from time to time glancing from side to side, perhaps looking for me or paying attention to something else. my daughter made new friends and was really having fun. it was de javu for me. i relived the excitement that i felt, the same fulfillment that i felt when i first saw my son khalvin in his first few days in school. i have never felt this way for a long time i realized....
