First Day Nerves

After much nerves, anticipation and dread on both our parts, Bethan's first day of High School is over. Technically it's Comprehensive School, but as our dialect sometimes like to switch to American, it's now known more as High School.

I waved her off at 730am to go for the bus. No longer a 5 minute walk around the corner, she has to get a bus. A big yellow bus, again a recent American copy.

Her sister doesn't start till tomorrow, today was just for the newbies, but she got up early to do her sister's hair "So she didn't go looking like a skank"....

Her sister also vetted her trousers, her school bag and shoes, making sure she looked cool enough to be her sister. I remember my sister doing the same when it came to my school uniform. Watching Jess rearranging Bethan's polo shirt and sweatshirt reminded me of Cheryl tying my school tie - backwards so the knot was huge with a small amount of fat tie poking out from under it. Of course when I arrived all the other newbies had neat little ties...

After a morning spent with her tutor, she started proper lessons. Welsh was easy says she, English was OK but RE (Religious Education) was rubbish - "because it was about religion and stuff"

She can't remember her teachers' names. She made friends but forgets their names too. It was in her words "A bit of a blur". She found the toilets. She ate lunch. She got on the right bus home. Most importantly, she wants to go back tomorrow

Tomorrow they both go. It seems weird to think of them both in Comp. My babies are growing up into young ladies and I feel I'm becoming surplus to requirements

This pic feels like yesterday

But now they are like this

And I feel old..