School boy

The big day has arrived, we have put on the white polo shirt (not the red jumper yet), and we started the induction days at Benji's "Big school".
He was quite scared of the unknown before the day has arrived, he even started negotiating that he would give back all his birthday presents, as he doesn't want to be 4 years old, and doesn't want to start school.
On the first day, which was just an hour play session, he didn't even want to move from me, even though everything was really positive, the school is lovely, his teachers seem nice, they went to talk to each children, tried to involve them into team play, encouraging making friends.
Next day we were expected to leave them for an hour, which Benji knew is going to happen, so he didn't want to go to school at all, even though Calub - who he thinks is going to be his friend - was there too.
When his teacher kindly started to invite the children inside, only him another little boy started crying (putting the girls to shame), so I walked in with him, the teacher started showing him the dinosaurs, I waved quickly and kind of run outside, where I also started crying...I just feel for these little people, I so sympathise with this horrible "first day in school, I don't know you, but please be my friend' feeling. I really hope he will find some good friends. I am sure he will.
However the receptionist lady gave me a tissue and went in to check upon him, just to find him two minutes later stopped crying and happily playing with the dinosaurs.

I couldn't wait for the hour to finish, went to the gate 15 minutes early, waiting together with the other mums for the door to open. It was so cute when the little 4 year olds appeared and they run to their parent's arms smiling. Benji's first sentence was that he had a good time, and lets come again. Then the teacher came to me and said, he was fine, and "He is really chatty, isn't he?" Oh well...tell me something I don't know :-)

At the weekend the school organised a little summer fair, where we went as well, so Benji gets used to his new school more and more, and we were hoping his little future classmates will be there as well. There were, but we didn't really have the opportunity to talk to them, but him and Robin enjoyed themselves a lot, dancing and running around..
Little Robin is becoming more and more clever by the day, he is really trying to talk both languages now, copying what he can hear. His institutional life is much less than Benji's as unfortunately the nursery only has him on Friday half day, as they don't have more places in the summer.
One would think that because of the irregularity he would have trouble settleing in, but he actually loves it, waves to Richard, walks in, and apparently has fun all day.

And we found another good reason to go strawberry picking again, we will go down to London this weekend to visit our friends. I think that is a really good exuse :)