Monday, April 4, 2011

How To Maintain Your Dignity When You Are A 12-Year-Old Attending Kindergarten:

Well...you don't. 
That doesn't mean you have to let yourself go and wear pink leg warmers while styling your hair like a member of Spandau Ballet.  No.  
But let's face it: you are 163 cm, you are almost ready to shave and when you answer the phone, people mistake you for your father, not your mother.  And there you sit sharing a stool with a lisping three-year-old in a classroom decorated with construction paper tulips.  So admittedly its tough.  
But dude, think about it: you are 163 cm, you are almost ready to shave, you are from California, you own an iPod, you have been surfing in the Pacific Ocean, you have been to New York City and Disneyland.  This is just a tiny, obscure village in the middle of Eastern Europe and as far as these kids are concerned, you are a celebrity.  
None of your friends back home have to know.
If you won't tell I....

will





Getting ready for school (they thought they were getting out of this for a year-ha!)


These girls are not members of the kindergarten class, these girls are only here to look at


these boys.


This is the kindergarten class


Gabi, he's three (they start early here)

                                             
Nicolas, Georgiana, Cristi and Emil

                                                                         
Leo

                                                                    
  Răzvan and Alina

                                                           
One of life's universals

                                                                     
Irina


                                                                          Recess

                                                   
so much more fun with big boys


big boys who aren't too cool to play with little boys (and girls)

              
My children: thanks for being willing to give and share your hearts and your joy.
To teacher, Teo: thanks for taking on two American boys and being willing to teach them how to read and write in Romanian.  Talk about going above and beyond everything we could ask for.


The afternoon football club



Team World Cup 2018


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