Enrollment na!

The month of May means (for most parents) time for enrollment.

I just enrolled my kids in school this morning. Before it was me being enrolled by my mother, now it's me doing the enrollment stuff... From answering and updating forms to paying at the cashier to the buying of books and uniform. Geez! I remember last year, it took me about 30mins max to enroll my 2 kids, now i have been at the school for almost 2 hours for 3 kids! The reason is that the school has been upgrading to computerized enrollment (per the Registrar). The nun (kids go to a Catholic school) told us (parents enrolling our kids) to bear with them because its only now that they are encoding the details for the students enrolled in their school. Ganon? What's the use of the form that they have sent out (it's like a pre-registration) before the school year ends??? Hassle! I was thinking that i'll be able to go to work today kahit na and hour or two na late (reasonable naman yung pagiging late ko e) but because i stayed for about 2 hours sa school no work for me today.

A thought entered my mind. I have an uncle (father's side) who keeps on depending on his siblings for his childrens' tuition and other fees for school. A parasite for me. I don't like him. Whenever he calls or suddenly show up at the house, it means that he needs something from my dad. Tuition fee, school activities, allowance for his family, and so on and so forth. Sometimes i wonder, will he remember us even if he don't need anything? Yung parang mangangamusta lang siya. I guess that will never happen. He is like a leech! Hanggang kayang pumiga, pipigain nya financially yung tao. Blame it on my father, his other siblings who gives support. They say, hindi nila matiis yung mga bata. But in fairness to my cousins, they do indeed excel in school. So parang sulit din yung binibigay sa kanila.

Sometimes I ask myself, how come I never ask my parents to shoulder my kid's school fees? They pay or give financial support for my cousin's education, how come I never ask them for their own grandchildren education? Nah, it's not me. As they say, "hanggang kaya ko, igagapang ko and edukasyon ng aking mga anak" . I don't want to be dependent sa parents ko. And I think that dapat pag-ipunan at paghandaan and tuition fee at iba pang mga gastusin sa paaralan ng mga bata.