am back again!

Yeah..i know.. i have been quiet for quite some time.. i dunno why.. i was not in the mood to blog too much these days..

benim çiçeğim hatice..whatz her development?

so far she is still loving her school life..it is quite difficult to convince her not to go to school even when she was not feeling well.. but of course as parents..when we said.. *dont go* to her.. she had no choice but to obey... she is masyaAllah an obedient child to begin with..

I am really happy with the fact that each month, a timetable of each day's main activities for hatice will be delivered to me... her eating timetable with the calories of each food in the menu for each schooling days will also be delivered to me each early of the month.. I always check with her to see whether the timetable is accurate.. so far i have no complaints..

She has also become the *yemekhane parlayan yıldızı* ( see the star on her shirt in the picture below) 7 times .. the star is granted for the student in the class who finishes most food during that day for lunch .. I think this is to motivate the students to finish the menu of the day.. for hatice, i think it works coz when she started her pre school education, she didnt touch her soup..only the main menu n dessert... but now..she tried to finish her soup as well so that she will be able to wear that *yıldız*..

My complain is i think the kids r given too much sweets in the school..maybe they r used as motivations for the kids to strive for the better in their studies..but i completely am so sad that hatice is eating too much sweets nowadays.. many days than not, she will tell me that she had eaten sweets at school..maybe her friends brought those sweets from home? i dunno..but what i know is that, hatice is eating too many sweets.. even nowadays at home, she eats sweets as well..this sadden me coz i do not like my kids to eat excessive sweets... hatice; before her pre school life..she very rarely eat at sweets.. more often than not, she would reject the sweets offered to her... not anymore... i know..i know..kids like sweets... she didnt used to like it.. now she does...far too much i am afraid..

The school system is good.. they try to get parents to be involved in the child's activities.. even the homework.. but i find that it may be too much for me.. for example.. there is supposed to be a some sort of competition among the mothers in particular.. each mother will buy a set book from the school office, and within a month,the mothers will read the book and there will be a competition among them.. participation for mothers r compulsory.. the aim? to incultivate the reading habit within the family members..if the mom reads for example, the child will want to as well..

Will i join in? of course not! i think this is absurd. I agree the aim is divine.. but for a foreign mom like me..i think it is a waste of my time.. i am not going to read a book in turkish n join the competition..i read at home.. my kids can see me read.. we have our own ways to create a reading interest within our children.. n i certainly do not need this kind of competition ..reading by force is not my cup of tea.. no offence dear school organizer.. i have nothing against u.. but i am not joining this competition.. n i am also getting bored with the meeting...i think i skipped the meeting twice.. n i really dread to see a call for a meeting the next time..

there is however, one thing i like that day... there was this mevlana celebration of some sort that other day... parents were invited... coctail was provided as well... halil n i came later after the cocktail.. but from what i saw.. the school had prepared many nice food for the parents n students to eat... for the mevlana night, a speaker was invited to talk about mevlana..i have to say, i was nearly asleep with his explanation but the show after that..the *sema* was wonderful.. i will add in the video clip later..for now, i will just add in the sema picture i snapped...

I think that is all for now... will write in later...........