OMG! I just realised I’d not put in a single post yet in October. I have been busy at work, and after work, it was to do revision with Zara to prepare her for her final exams.

Now the Final Exams Are Over!! At least I’m less busy at night (if I don’t have to work).

Yesterday, while Zara was sorting out her school bag, I just realised, she’s almost coming to the end of Standard 1! How time flies.

She’s done well for the 1st year in Primary school. Her 2011 at a glance….

She didn’t speak much Chinese last year, now she can quarrel with me in Mandarin.

She didn’t read much Chinese, and was getting ~8X% in Chinese for her first 2 exams, now she’s getting ~9X%.

There was a Li Bai’s poem taught in school, with the ending 2 sentences :
举头望明月，地头思故乡 (which is translated to : I lift my eyes to watch the mountain moon, Lower them and dream of home). And when I asked her if she knew what it was about she told me something like, “You look at the moon, then you think about the good old days.” o.O”

She said she corrects her English teacher’s English in class at times. o.O”

She started picking up bits of Cantonese from school, and she asked me one day, “How come all the Cantonese words are the 3rd sound?” (Chinse intonation 3rd sound). Quoting examples like, sek-farn (eat rice), fei-poh (fat lady).
Aaaa.. I didn’t notice that.

She’s now started swimming laps in her swimming lesson while trying to perfect her stroke.

She sleeps without bed guards, and knows when to ‘pull the breaks’ at the edge and not fall off the bed.

Although she prefers to be read to, she now started reading on her own too. Reading Sponge Bob comics, Geronimo Stilton etc.

She can bath herself now, and at times even bath and shampoo Zaria. Sometimes in times of need, even wipes Zaria’s butt after Zaria has done her poop.

She manages her own pocket money of RM5 a week (spending most of it buying useless things from the school bookshop).

She’s definitely done a lot of growing up in 2011.