很抱歉, 因不太會打中文, 以下只有文英文。
Interview at St. Catherine’s International Kindergarten 國際英文幼稚園面試 1 Nov 2012 Heard a lot about the traditional well-known schools in KLT, now is our real experience in it. So my daughter went for St. Cat’s K1 interview,w ould like to share our most updated experience as we are benefited from other mom’s blogs too. Interview appt time was at 4:15pm, and we arrived at 4pm,saw lots of dad/mom/maid outside, as only 1 parent is allowed to go into the school. So daddy stayed outside and we were brought into the school and led to the end of the queue in the first area. My daughter became nervious as its her first interview, she made me carry her and was grabbing me tight. The queue moved and we turned right into the next area where there is a much longer queue.
The queue went on and on and we were waiting in one room, then a dif. room to gether number (it is #1850!
Can you imagine nearly 2000 kids interviewed today?), then another room and finally to the first “graded” area. Each waiting time was around 3-5min. The English line was much longer than the Chinese line.
It could be annoying to some parents, but for us was quite useful as my daughter went from grabbing me tight to walking herself to appreciating the environment and asking me to go play with her. 
In this room there were 4 tables with 4 kids each. Their task is to play Lego and parents sit on the side, teacher will ask them questions as they play. Just so happened that all 4 kids in our table were crying and not letting their mom go. She played well at first but as I stood up and took the first step away she cried.
I told her there was no chair and I would sit overthere, then she asked me to sit on the chair next to her, which belongs to the other kid who was crying and holding his mom. I explained to her that this chair belongs to the boy, then my daughter stood up and asked me to take her chair! I think this is a smart move, but teacher won’t appreciate it I guess. So finally the teacher began to ask questions (at this time, 1 kid was playing on his own, 2 kids, including my girl, played with mommy next to them, 1 kid still crying), and no kid answered.
Yes, none of the 4 kids responded to the teacher, even when their names were called. So Part I failed I guess.  When we left the Lego room, she became normal again, talked and smiled as usual. Then we were brought to another waiting queue, then entered the second “graded” area: 1 to 1 interview. There were 4 teachers behind 4 tables interviewing at the same time. 2 teachers were foreigners and 2 were Chinese as we picked English interview. My girl acted normal until her name was called and we walked to the front of the table. Our interviewer was a Chinese lady with relatively serious look. She was holding my leg and didn’t want to sit down in front of this teacher. We struggled for about half minute to finally sat down. So here is the conversation:
Teacher: hi good afternoon, what is your name? C (my daughter): no answer T: repeat the question and still no answer, then she raised up 1 hand and said give me a hi-five C: hi-five the teacher T: (raised up both hands) how about 2 hi-fives C: hit both hands with the teacher T: good
T: mommy, here is a questionnaire you can answer in Chi/Eng while I talk to your daughter, no need to be detailed. (questions were like what is your expectation from us, what would you do if your kid did not behave in public, how would you spend your free time…etc)
T: (took out a card with a Sheep on it) What is this? C: no answer T: repeated first question, still no answer. (took out a snack package and said) you can have this after you answer my questions. C: no reaction
T: mommy, do you have anything that can attract yourdaughter? (I took out a cheese sandwich cracker)
C: biscuits (with smile)! T: (took my cracker package) you can have both of these after you answer my questions What is it? How does it sound?
C: no answer. (I whisper the answers in her ear and she still didn’t say anything) T: repeated the 2 questions and still no response then took out a 4-pc puzzle of the sheep, shuffled them and asked to place them in order C: no action (I think this part she really doesn’t know how as I never play puzzle with her)
T: took out some blocks and asked to pick out 3 blue blocks C: picked out a blue one after I repeated the instruction (here the teacher stopped me from giving hits).
However, even after teachers repeated hints and instructions, she didn’t pick out anymore T: picked out 2 more blue blocks and asked to stack them together C: no action(again, this type of block she ever saw before and may not know that they can be stacked)
T: (took out a plate and a snack box with toy sausage, egg, ham in it) Can you open the box, take out a sausage, put it in a plate, and give to mommy with the sausage on the plate? C: followed exactly (I think she did pretty well with such long instructions!) T: can you close the box? C: tried but the lid was flipped over that’s why she could not close it
T: can you go to the cart behind you and take out a book and bring it back? C: followed exactly T: can you open the book? C: opened the first page T: (pointing to a swallow on the first page) What is this? C: no answer T: point to another bird on the book and asked what that is.
Repeated the Q on a few pages C: no answer to all
T: can you sing a song?
What is your favorite song? C: no reaction (I whispered a couple of her favorites and still no answer) T: (point at me) who is this? Is this your daddy? Baba? Father? C: no answer even the teacher is calling her mommy a daddy! T: okay, thankyou! C: bye-bye Haha, my girl spoke 2 words only: biscuit and bye-bye. I guess she failed this part too.
As we walked away and she pointed at different things and talked about them. So I turned around and said to the teacher: ‘now she is talking.’
The teacher responded me that this is quite common. As a conclusion, I think she needs to practice on acting under pressure. Well, and learn to do puzzles too. Thanks for reading thru, hope its helpful. | 
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