Back to School

Evelyn and I started school this week. It's actually been pretty exciting and good. I think it was nice to ease into it, as our first day of school was Wednesday and then we went today but we have tomorrow off.

So Miss Mouse is attending a Spanish immersion preschool that we really love. After the basic requirements of cleanliness and such were met, the only thing I cared about when searching for daycare was the warmth and kindness of the staff. Her teachers and the other staff are just amazing. I cried a little bit when we dropped her off the first day, and I did pick her up early, but I have honestly been okay with it. Today I had some time to kill before picking Jonathan up, so I went and hung out with her outside and in her salon (salon = classroom, one of this month's words). It's amazing how just being in that immersion environment takes me back to my years of Spanish and makes me want to speak it. I understand almost everything her teachers say to her, so I know I have at least an infant-level Spanish comprehension! Ha. Even though we weren't specifically looking for a language school, I'm pretty stoked that she'll be bilingual by the time she heads to kindergarten. Then the challenge will be keeping up with those language skills.

And school for me? Not nearly as exciting. I think I'd rather spend the day at school with Evelyn. I'm taking Cognitive Psych, History and Systems of Psych, and I'm doing a practicum that involves working with teen moms and their families and babies. I like that last one. And of course I'm working in the clinic at school and doing that dissertation. Same old, same old.