Kindergarten registration = done

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Time to cry?  I am excited and sad and stressed. 

We went with french school instead of english (we have both in our neighborhood and qualify for english education).  For two main reasons:
- A lot of her daycare friends are going to that french school, and my girl is shy and quiet and attached to her friends.
- Every single english Montreal person we talk to says the same thing: "english is easy, french is hard.  Do your child a favor and send them to french."  We speak english at home, so it will be a good balance, and hopefully we will send her to english after elementary. 

Oh and also, when we visited both schools on open house days, the english one was completely disorganized and utter chaos.  The french one, even though they had just lost power and it was -40, was well organized and generally awesome and inspired confidence  So yay    Plus I will feel more comfortable having her in a french environment, with teacher meetings and helping her with homework and all that jazz. 

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We're going to try for an immersion school, either French or Spanish. Mostly because I hate that i lost all of my French from the few hours a week I had to take it when I didn't appreciate learning another language. So I say, start them young!

Plus, yeah, the organization thing. It kind of matters for kids.

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Is French your native language?

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Elle, french is my usual language. My mother tongue is greek, but I only use that with my parents. But since I speak english with H, it seems that my kids mother tongue is english. I tried speaking greek and french to them (I still do sometimes), but they are both more comfortable in english, although they speak french well and understand greek.

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GOod for you! I think you cry now. I don't do DD's until March, but we got her paperwork this week and I cried.

And then DH laughed at me and said 'wah, i don't want my baby to grow up I don't ever want to have a life again'. jerkhead.