Her Best Friend, Gitu

Alya (left), Eirsa

This was Alya, Eirsa's best friend when she was at her previous daycare. Eirsa, when she was at her previous previous daycare, dia tak de kawan rapat. Paling paling pun dengan Hadif, anaknya si Ishah. Up to a point, the daycare owner told us that there was something wrong about Eirsa. May be she was concerned but I was a bit offended. Due to several other unpleasant incidents plus we thought that Eirsa better off to an upgraded daycare (daycare + few hours of school session), we searched high and low for her new daycare (previous daycare).

We found this AN's nursery; a surge of double the fee but looked like a more promising with 2-3 hours of short period of classes a day. With very limited options due to distance and ehem ehem, fees, we chose this place for Eirsa.

As expected, she'd face some difficulties in getting used to the place but miraculously it took less than a week to lose her morning tears. She started to love the school and after several weeks, she began to talk about her new best friend; Alya.

Eirsa didn't have many friends. She was so selective when it comes to strangers when she was around 3-4 years old. But after meeting with Alya, these two were inseparable. I thought it's just Eirsa who was talking about Alya this Alya almost most of the time, but it so happened to be Alya did the same while she was at her home too. We found out about this when we accidentally bumped into Alya and her family at the Citta Mall and that was also the first time Eirsa and Alya had that outing together (as shown in photo above), walaupun sekadar sekejap sahaja.

We were glad that Alya gave many happy memories to Eirsa, and that she learnt a lot about friendship at her very young age. Alya was a very good girl, very independent and very friendly. These helped a lot in improving Eirsa's socializing skills, indirectly. Although it was sad that Eirsa didn't able to meet Alya again, but we were also relieved that her transition to this new preschool was smooth, even though she did mention about Alya once in a while and I cried a little bit in my heart. I hope one day they would be reunited and be friend again. A lot of time I had this idea of having Alya at our house so that they play together all day long, sleep together through the night, tapi tak pernah ada rezeki untuk direalisasikan.

And I also hope that along the way, Eirsa will meet many many other good friends that will give her good memories and happiness (and vice versa) because I know friendship means a lot to a girl during her schooling years and how friendship plays big role in cultivating a person's good (or bad, na'uzubillahiminzalik) behavior while she's in schooling years. Amiin.