This lack of true appreciation at our good fortune wasn't some false bravado on our part, not at all. If we had known how incredibly difficult school admissions actually are, we would have been wrecks through the process and delirious at the success of the mission. But as it happened, we are generally quite clueless and at that point in time, knew very few people with kids the same age, whose experience we could learn from. Therefore, we had very little idea that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is to get a 4 year old into any school. And I mean ANY school, even those that add International to their names and have to write the bodies that actually recognise their right to exist on their signboards right next to their names in abbreviated gibberish. (for example, St Chaitanya International, (Recgd. by Cent. Govt, BSE, NSE & CBSE.)