Alycia has been bugging me to fetch her to school and ditch the transporter as Aunty J, the transporter has been late in picking her up for school lately. As she is a school prefect and needs to be in school by 7am for duty everyday, her daily 10-15 minutes late has been drawing queries and flak from her seniors. She is very unhappy over this. I have asked her many times if she’d like to quit her appointment as a school prefect as this added responsibility seems to be giving her some inconveniences and I always get the same reassuring answer from her that she still likes to be a prefect. She also needs to eat hurriedly during recess so that she can go for her rounds during recess time. On top of all these, she needs to have an exemplary attitude in school at all times. But she is reluctant to throw in the towel just yet. In their school, the school prefect title is something that is admirable and respectable. She told me that the teacher in charged of the prefects have warned the prefects not to quit and those who do so would be penalized and caned! I do not know how true this is. Maybe she just cooked up a story to stop me from encouraging her to quit. Well, Chinese schools are well known for their draconian and fear-instilling ways of punishing their students.
If I were to fetch Alycia and Sherilyn to school, I would have to sacrifice at least an hour of my time in the morning, which I really relish. It is during this pre dawn time that I find so much peace engaging in my daily exercise regimen, when it is still dark outside and so serene. I jog within the compound of my condo and thereafter proceed to the gym. It is also during this time that I de-stress myself, do some problem-solving thinking and soul-searching and to get myself ready for yet another long and tiring day. If I were to fetch them to school, by the time I reach home from school in the morning, I would need to prepare Cass for school and after Cass goes off to school, it would be too sunny for me to run outside. If you know me well, I do NOT like the sun. So I am still keeping Aunty J the transporter so that I can still have my quiet ME TIME for another 1.5 years before Cass goes to Standard 1. It would be more cost-wise to fetch the 3 girls myself then, else I would need to fork out RM660 just on transportation for my 3 girls to and from school!
What would you do if you were me?
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