School Moms

Most of the functions dealing with getting parents of the kids together for coffees and such are scheduled during the morning or at a time when I am at work. You see it is very uncommon for the expat wives to work here. I feel like I am the only one. There may be some that teach at the school, but who knows. However last night there was an evening get together so I took advantage of the opportunity and went. Now I am not the PTA mom, let's meet for coffee and let our kids play mom or the teacher's helper-homeroom mom. Nothing against all that but I work and I love my job. So I wasn't sure if I would have anything in common with these ladies who don't work and whose kids are in school all day but they still feel the need for a live-in domestic helper. I was presently surprised. One of the ladies husband works for the same company I do. Another was from Houston and her husband works for Exxon-Mobile. There were ladies there from California and Japan too. Some had been in Singapore for 2 years and some 2 weeks. It was a nice evening and I really hated that I had to leave early. Hopefully there will be other events that I can go to and get to know some of them better. I'm sure having a network of other ladies to ask questions of and possibly answer some as well would be nice.