The Tashkent International School starts earlier than most schools in the USA but is in line with many international schools. Our first day of classes was this past Tuesday, August 15. This is a special year for us as it is the last that we will have our middle son, Oliver with us. He is a senior and a member of the Class of 2024. We will be down to 1 child at home, with our oldest son Owen, leaving with the Class of 2021. We miss him dearly and will be falling apart all over again next June when Ollie graduates. I am making a point to spend as much time with him as possible.
As you can see in the photo above, I am the only morning person in the Kralovec household. Oliver is not too bad in the mornings like me, but Nadia, Ocean, and Owen don’t function too well early in the day. I had to be at school early on the first day, but on the second day, we took the traditional first day of school photo in our back garden. It is such a wonderful aspect of working in education that Nadia and I get to go to work with our children instead of seeing them go off to school and only meet them in the evenings. It is comforting and special to see them through the day. I did manage to video Oliver and Ocean coming to school on the first day. I had morning gate duty where I greet the students, employees and parents as they arrive. It is nice to see Oliver and Ocean every morning.
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