L'ecole qui commence! School starts!

First day of school was the day after we got here!! Talk about jumping in at the deep end!

La premiere journey d'ecole fut le jour apres notre arrivee!

First step, find the school supplies we bought way back when we were in Chicoutimi, sort them out and put them in backpacks! All of this while feeding the boys breakfast!

Premiere etape, trouver les fournitures scolaires achetees il y a belle lurette lorsqu'on etait encore a Chicoutimi. En meme temps, on essaie de se reveiller et de dejeuner...

Boys are a bit nervous. Les garcons sont un peu nerveux...

Okay now we are running late: shoot! Boys are hoping for a subtle quick entrance into their classes...
not the case! We arrived right smack in the middle of a whole school assembly (you will see this is a small school like l'ecole des Sept-Sommets). They were promptly made to stand in front of all the students and got a long (seemed like forever) round of applause. Ha! what a warm welcome and a grand entrance into their new school: l'ecole aux iris!!

This is Henri in his class followed by Charlie with his group heading out for his first class, his favorite: P.E. The students were very curious about them and kept asking them questions for at least the first week. They are asked constantly to speak english, their friends can't believe how well they can do this!! Boys are loving the specialness they feel!

This next picture does not do it justice, i will take more, but their school is very close to the ocean. Recess with a view of the sea!! Not bad!

During school, mom and dad go for bike rides but are very forlorn and miss their children so much as you can see with the sad faces in this photo:

Boys come home for lunch as they get 1h40 minutes lunch break. That is very nice I have to say. At the end of the day they come by bus. We are happy to see that they made it through their first day at school!