Her First Field Trip

My usual Saturday morning is normally spent in the study room with the girls. Yasmin & Wardah, seated on their own chairs solving pages of their mental arithmetic sums given by their UCMAS teacher the night before. Balqis gets busy too. She either brushes up her reading or doodling away(which she often opts for the later..). Nadeen with luck, will get carried away with her non-audible toys I select. Most of the times she would rather be on par with her other sisters to get hold of a pencil. Thankfully she agrees with crayons.

Today is rather a quiet one for me. Only Nadeen is around. Yasmin & Wardah are both in school attending a workshop on Smart Learning or something. And my Balqis is out for her first outing with friends.

Her kindy selected the KL Bird Park for the field trip this year. Balqis is extremely excited. I have taken Yasmin & Wardah to the park before but it was ancient ago which both hardly remembered a thing. Of course this trip was much an annoyance to Wardah. Balqis was like non-stopping telling bird park this & bird park that... Frankly, when I found out about the workshop I was so glad & without any hesitation signed up both of their names. At least not only Balqis, Yasmin & Wardah too would be occupied with a different source of activity. Away from their Saturday norms.

I sent off Yasmin & Wardah first this morning. Rather a surprise when I saw quite a number of cars outside the school compound. Yasmin informed that I needed to register for them. Alaaa...

" You 2 are big enough to do your own registration right? In fact, I have made the payment earlier."

"OK mama." Came from Yasmin.

Smiling I drove off to Balqis's kindy. The truth girls... I had other priority ;-) It's Balqis's first field trip! I had to do what I needed to...

When we reached her kindy, the bus was already there. True as the principal promised, a big air-conditioned bus.

A pose next to the bus.

I saw other parents too assembling outside the premise. Hey! I was not doing this alone...! ;-) Took Balqis to her teacher, kissed her,told her to be good & of course to have fun!

I was waiting in the sun & getting real bored. Sneaked in & found the children listening tentatively to their principal. I, like always pointed my toy...

Look at them!

I agree that it is the parent who is really the culprit in instilling disciplines to the youngsters. Once, Balqis noticed my existence automatically came a smile & whatever briefed unheard... hehehe!

At 830am sharp the first group made a move. This mom, chose a convenient spot outside for her camera shoot. And here came Balqis with her classmates & teachers.

In the photos above, Balqis was very friendly to my lens. Now, observe the following shots...

She was about to pass this lady with one big camera (well... at least it was the biggest that morning!)

I could sense irritation in the air... hahaha!

Even when I called out her name & waved goodbye, she simply walked off. In her mind probably, "No, I don't know that lady!" Hahaha!

Lining up to get in the bus & that was the principal, Ms. Ching.

The bus driver assisted her.

I monitored from below, the seat she settled in. Rushed to the other side & found her with 2 boys. She was seated by the aisle. Just hope everything will be fine. InsyaAllah..

A wave at last.

Bye Balqis. Have a great time!!