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Hello Leanne,

Last Saturday was your first true encounter with a school. We went to a nearby school to enrol you in their Kinder program - at least we hoped that you could be accelerated to Kinder already, skipping Nursery. Anyway, you were called to undergo a screening exam to determine if you could skip Nursery. You took the exam in the library together with a teacher who administered the exam. I was pretty confident that you'd do on it, while your Nanay seemed more stressed that you were while waiting outside the library. I told your nanay "sisiw kay Leanne yan," after I saw you wrote your name with all confidence. That is only a week after I taught you how to write! Galing mo talaga anak! :)

You were able to sit down, behaved and listened to the teacher through the exam (whew!). The teacher approached us afterwards and told us that you are excellent academically. In fact, you scored 11 out of 15 questions. You had mistakes on the reading items on the exam...di pa naman kasi kita natuturuan ng husto na magbasa. Pero that's fine. To me, that was indeed exceptional! I think there would be few 3 years old kids who can do such feat. Mana ka ata sa tatay mo. :)

Anyway, in a couple of weeks, you'll be off on your own...for the first time. We'll always be here anak for you, don't you ever forget that. I know that you'll do good wherever you will go.

God bless you my dear Leanne.

I love you.

Tatay