Today is the 1st day of school for the returning students.
1st day in the new building for all of us.
The fresh smell of paint invites both excitement and anxiety for us, the staff, torn between the workload and the new hopeful.
But the faces of the students remind us all why we are doing this.
We are all smiling in endearment.

The younger ones are so cute.
All of the adults, watched in amusement when the little ones entered their new classrooms, for the first time.
"There's some sort of magic in this moment," I thought.

It was a different atmosphere in the admissions office.
A young boy is crying, not wanting to take the placement test.
"Oh dear, he must have had a bad experience," I thought.
His mother tried to console him, feeling quite exasperated herself, " Mummy work so hard so that you can study in a good place !"

My heart was heavy for both the boy and mummy.

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Happiness....