Looking Back...

We were discussing this in P&L, and when I finally thought about all of it, I was pretty surprised.
Mr. Lacy kept saying something aboout managing to skip a grade in primary school. Not that we actually considered that to be too much of a feat now, but back in the day I suppose it would've been considered pretty impressive.

Looking back, I had a family friend who managed to move up a year after a term in year 3. I was in year 5 at that time, and rather unimpressed at the fact that he was now encroaching on my territory.

My story, I suppose, is not nearly as impressive as his was.
What I had managed to do was to skip out on a Year/Grade/Standard 4. Completely. It wasn't because I was brilliantly smart. It wasn't because my mother forced me to enroll into school early beyond my formative years. No, none of that.
It was because I switched school systems.
When I was 8 I moved from the Philippines to Malaysia. In doing so, I had to switch from an American Missionary international school to a British international school. I had just finished Grade 3, and upon moving back to Malaysia, realised that I was meant to continue into Year 5, and not 4.

And I never quite realised what a weird, but interesting circumstance it was. I guess one could say it coincided with my Chinese heritage, with 'si' or 'sei' being unlucky and all. So technically, this would then mean I should be extremely lucky in all my studies, seeing as I've managed to miss out on the 'most unlucky' year of all?

Well, perhaps not so lucky. I remember having to spend all of year 5 changing my spelling from that of an American way to a British way. And of course, I am now fully convinced that the British way is the only proper way to spell things because of this. XD I didn't go through all that work for nothing.

Aluminum ---> Aluminium
Color ---> Colour
Favorite ---> Favourite
Gray ---> Grey

Odd, the things that've actually happened to me when I think about it.

Mishy <3