mixed feelings

I wrote this diarytwo weeks ago. And my two sons graduated their schoolsbefore the lunar new year.

Last Saturday afternoon,my younger son and I went toa clothing shopto buy his new school uniform. At the shop, while he was trying them on, he looked like a different boy from whom I have known so far. He seemed to be amature teenager. I could not find out my cuteyoungboy there.Afterhe got theassignment slipfor his middle school last week, he went there to register by himself. When I got back home, he showed me a thick file of d0cuments containing schedules that the school hasalready prepared. According to them, he has to join akind of team building activity for 2 daysand then attend an afterschool program before officially entering that school.Of course, he isstill an elementary school student.The graduation ceremony will be held next Thursday. Saturday morning, I also attended a specific seminar which was held at a private English academy. Theyinformed parents about a new educational policy corresponding tonewcomers inmiddle school this year.All mothersin there seemed to know very well about it.They asked so many questions about that. As always, I felt like a wall flower surrounded by specialists. Everything that I heard was new to me. Anyway,from March, my son is going to enter thedog eat dog atmosphere whether we want or not. On next Friday, my older son also willget his new high school assignment. My two boys willput their steps intothe new era from this March. I just hope that they would go through this tough educational process with positive attitude. Looking back my younger days, even though I was a kind of smart and self-organized student (^^), I also had experienced astressfulsituation while I was preparing the entrance examination for the university. However, these days’ students seem to have much more stress since they were so young. I dream about utopia where all Korean teenagers would be entitled to enjoy their lives.