The 30 Pictures 30 Stories Challenge - Day 4 - School Books

Day 4 - School books

I got inspired by the "30 day not-so ordinary ordinary items challenge" but as I love giving things a personal twist, I decided to change the format a bit for myself so it suits me better. I've adjusted it to the 30 pictures - 30 stories challenge. But some days you will see that I also use not-so ordinary ordinary objects.

Feel free to join the challenge at any time if you like.

Publish one picture a day during 30 days and write a story about that picture. This can be anything, any object in the home, a person, scenery or a pet. I'm going to share a diversity of pictures and challenge myself to step outside of the box.

For the fourth day of the 30 pictures - 30 stories challenge, I'm sharing with you a picture of a pile of school books. They are from my daughter and are currently a hot topic here, even during the weekends and long after she comes home during school days.

She started at a public school here in Spain in September, a little later than the rest of the kids due to slow bureaucratic processes here. Her first report card came just before the Christmas holidays and she did better than we expected, with the exception of a 5 for lengua (Spanish language). We understand this takes some time and we rewarded her with a LEGO set anyway for her effort as she worked hard with a handicap of not speaking the language.

While the holidays started we found out just a little before this that her behavior got quite bad sometimes because she didn't want to go to school. She didn't like it anymore at this "stupid boring school" she said. She didn't like the yelling of the teacher and we read many other comments in the parent app from school about children not wanting to go to school anymore. So at least she was not alone in this and it also counted for the Spanish children.

I requested a meeting with the teacher and asked if the English teacher could join to translate. I had this meeting last Monday and I was happy to notice this teacher is not the angry teacher my daughter felt she was. She was friendly and explained they are dealing with covid rules that they maintained. They are not allowed to close the doors and windows so you can hear all the noisy kids in all the classes. I'm glad I'm not her! I explained that my daughter thinks she's angry with her because she raises her voice a lot but she told me this is not true and that she understands Spanish better than we think, which is nice. She promised to be more aware of it and try to change the attitude so it doesn't come across the wrong way.

Meanwhile, I had a bright idea to ask the daughter of our hair dresser for help with the language. She told me when we were there that she didn't have a job and loves speaking English, I suddenly thought let's just ask her and see if she's willing to help even if it's just a few times. She was open to it, I contacted her the next day and she is now coming 3x 1,5 hours a week in the afternoon to help her with school work and she's been here twice now. I feel so happy I contacted her as she's so patient and my daughter really likes it when she comes. I bet we will see progress in a few weeks from now.

Sometimes you have to think outside of the box and find a solution from a strange angle while it was actually very close. There was a parent meeting on Monday after my meeting with the teacher and they told me that she is going to tutor the children who need it, they get it for free but she only has slots of 15 minutes with sometimes 2 weeks waiting time. I'm very happy that I found a more suitable solution for my daughter.

Meanwhile, I will pick up a thing or two myself listening to them in between the work :)

See you tomorrow!

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