the FIRST day of school

I declare that today I truly understood what a 'leap of faith' meant:

We dropped our not yet 3 year old daughter, Selah, off at a kindergarten here on campus. We walked in and got whisked away to fill out some registration forms. After bantering back and forth in charades -like fashion with the assistant director, we figured out that she needed US to fill it out. So we took a look at the sheet, realizing that we didn't recognize even one pen stroke on the page. And Selah had been given a Chinese name that we knew neither how to pronounce it nor how to write. We just looked at her and muttered a commom phrase that we foreigners know "ting bu dong." It means "I hear you but haven't a clue what you're saying." We've gotten very proficient at using that phrase.

She filled out most of the form herself. We proceeded in the morning by taking Selah up to the third floor to her classroom. The drop-off was surprising easy until we realized while walking out the door of the building that the shreeking and wailing was coming from OUR daughter on the 3rd floor.

At outside time, she struggled with staying with the class but wanted to play on the playground. We watched, amused, as the teacher just followed her around and tried to get her to stay in line. Lunch time ended in the director's office because she wouldn't eat lunch.

All in all is was a good day. A Faithful day. Tomorrow is yet another.