I had to cut short my must-have me-time predawn exercise this morning to bring Sherilyn to school at 6:45 a.m. The bus would leave the school before 7 a.m. for the stadium. She’s representing her school again this year in several athletics events – 400m, 4x400m, javelin and short putt. The inter-school athletics competition is on-going the entire week and she has to skip lessons the entire week. AGAIN! She’s been skipping lessons the past one month to do daily athletics practice, cheerleading and CNY dance practice. After this inter-school athletics meet, she’ll be taking part in an inter-state cultural dance competition! And just today she told me that her teacher appointed her as the school’s camera crew and asked me for money to buy a shirt. All crew members have to don on the shirt when they are on duty. I wonder how she’s going to catch up on her studies but her hunger for taking part in competitions is too ferocious for anyone to stop her.
This middle child of mine is a sucker for competitions since young. At pre-school and primary school, she would take part in all the singing, dancing and drawing competitions. In high school now, she’s participating in more competitions – athletics, drama, dancing, taekwondo and all that jazz. Hopefully she’ll score sufficient points to clinch a scholarship in college.
After dropping Sherilyn off in school, I went to the park to continue with my brisk-walking for another half an hour.
I think I’m going to be one of these aunties here 10 years down the road, partaking in daily morning tai chi, qigong and line dance groups. 😬👯♀️
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