"He isn't there at what time he's finished?"
It's the first day at school going my bus and we checked the schedules of both. The bus-kid will leave each morning at the same time with the youngest. This means twice a week it's waiting at school (or somewhere else) till school starts. If it will be successful at school is questionable because a face mask is required. Therefore no face masks at the school of the youngest. Might be the bus station is a better place to be. Fresh air, no face masks.
Back home is a different story. The youngest has to take the bus a few times alone. Most likely on Mondays and Tuesdays which means these days I have to wait for 3 and 2 hours or drive up and down. What will be most likely depend on the weather and my mood?
September first started with a heavy storm and the temperature dropped with 15 degrees Celsius. At night it's only 12°C. This morning I drove both to the bus station by the moonlight and through the fog. It's clear Autumn if not Winter is near. I need a coat in the morning (I don't have one) and winter shoes and in the afternoon it's "Summer" again.
"How was your day?" I asked the youngest. I sent a WhatsApp and SMS to get out at the water tap, they children didn't read it but since they stood on the bus for an hour the youngest saw me (smart kid) and decided to get out earlier.
"Fine. We explored the school, there's no classroom for us and I have my new books."
The new books are mainly German, History, and maths. Let's hope this will be an easy year. At both schools, the teachers spoke about homeschooling. Sounds like they count on the next lockdown or are willing to improve the lessons.
Both schools seem to deal with too many students. Not because they are popular but mainly because of the merging of schools. They say it's a way of saving money but in reality, they still have not a penny left for some activities. That's why the parents are billed. They need to pay for sports activities, days out (excursions), copies of papers (never see one we make the copies ourselves), et cetera. Together a high amount of extra's per child each school year again. It's good I save for these expenses otherwise it would be a big stress factor how to gather the next 5 or 10 euro again.
Since the teacher of the youngest mentioned it's not sure if all parents agree by paying 10 euro for the German grammar book we spent a part of the money to buy the most needed exercise books and notebooks first. Next week I'll see how to deal with the rest.
It is the beginning of classes and the daily difficulties begin.
The climate here is having ups and downs too. Waves of heat, the rain comes and the heat goes down a bit. It refreshes at least at night because during the day the temperature reaches 38 ° C and more.
I hope that the children adapt well to all these changes. In classes.