Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Here Comes The Bus...



Here comes the bus........ ( please hum it as in "Here Comes The Bride...." ) he...he...he...




I have never been so happy to see a glimpse of a rectangular piece of machinery called the bus, hoorayyyy....


After finally drifting into a fitful sleep in the wee hours of the morning, I woke up to a splitting headache. Boy, I sure had a bad night :D



Needless to say, I was at the school by 3 o'clock after cooking his favourite vegetable soup with "fucuk" and "soohoon". Why.... my dear son would surely be hungry and tired. Afterall, they only had cheese & mushroom pasta for dinner and it was served at such an early hour of 5.30 pm !!!! (typical dutch dinner time is between 5.30 to 6.00 pm). Then, they had nothing else, no midnight snack was allowed !!! And I bet they would have only cheese sandwich for lunch, he never really like cheese sandwich except cheese tosti !!! I bet he would be hungry..... ( now I know why some mothers who have children in boarding schools, are guilty of stuffing their children with table-laden food he...he...he...)




The driver making it's final maneuver..... I can see his class teacher....



There he was in orange cap......




Smiling as he steps out of the bus, happy to see me, of course :D



After hugs and kisses, to my query of "Did you have fun?", he replied "Yes, except there is a little problem", then he drifted away to get his baggage. I wonder what "the problem" was. "Wetting his bed??", came accross my mind. But he had never done so in a looong time....


I talked to his teacher while he was queing for the baggage. She said he woke up in the middle of the night and came looking for her when he couldn't go back to sleep again. They had a little chat, then he went back to sleep. Aaargh... I had expected that :D


As it happens, he had not slept a wink when he went to see her !!!! Ha...ha...ha...


In fact, the "little problem" was he couldn't sleep !!!! Arek (his friend), who was listening to our conversation, said "Are you kidding ??? You were the first to fall asleep !!!!


Now, I'm confused !!!! After a little clarification, here is the story....



There were six boys sharing the room, three of them had already fell asleep, so that left Ilham, Arek and Alvaro who couldn't sleep. It seemed like a looongg night (none of them had a watch). Finally, Ilham decided to look for the teacher. She came to their room, and chatted a little, told him to create a name beginning with A, B and so on. It's ok if he didn't get to Z, because that means he was already asleep. It seemed to work, he was the first to be asleep among the still-awaken boys !!! I wonder what time Arek and Alvaro finally slept :D


He had a wonderful time at the museum and later, they had a 3 course dinner - vegetable soup (he had two of them !!) as starter, cheese and mushroom pasta for the main course and chocolate mousse with white chocolate sauce as dessert. After dinner they had a game of basketball, then shower followed by diary writing and bed time story. Lights out at 8.30 pm (still day-light !!! maghrib is 9.15 pm !!!). The next day, he was the first to wake up. They had breakfast of toast and cheese and herbs, it's yummy he said, but he would rather have toast and egg !!! For snack, he had a banana, sultana biscuit and orange juice. For lunch, he had peanut butter sandwich !!! (surprising! since they do not allow kids to bring peanut butter sandwich to school !!!) That's the only choice for the vegetarian, the others had ham sandwich of course. He had a wonderful time too at the zoo.


When we got home, he said "Ohhh.... I miss my house too"



Hugging the house :D


Since he seemed to be doing well, I told him that he could go and have a sleepover at Shafiq's house, to which he replied vehemently "NO !!!!"




6 comments:

Cat-from-Sydney said...

ROTFLOL!!!! OK OK My Mama was worse when she picked me up at the KLIA Cargo Complex!!!! purrrr....meow!

i amsterdam said...

Dear Angelina,

Ha..ha...ha.. I bet your mama was smooching you with kisses when she picked you up !!!

Nana said...

Hahaha...Now, it would be amusing to see your expression when the bus finally opened the door! You sure nobody took any photos or videos of the parents? It would be something to see! ;)

i amsterdam said...

Nana,

Trust me, the parents were grinning from one ear to another, happy to see the kids !!!

Eine Frau aus Botnang said...

Hi dear, this entry is soo cute! Sorry for the long silence but here is my new humble abode. http://fraunfashaholz.tumblr.com/. Take care

Cheqna said...

I.A dear,

congrats to you both on surviving the "trip"..

I love that picture of him hugging the kitchen window..hehehe..

welcome home Ilham..

:-)

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