Silly Teachers in Rome

They make you write very neatly. They make you color very neatly, even if you are a person in preschool. And they don't even have kindergarten in Rome. We have an English class but all we are doing is "the tree," "the mushroom." "the grass," "the leaves." And we have a religion class. They teach you stuff like "God made the Earth." I like school a lot because you have recess and a lot of other fun stuff. Fun stuff like "non tocare per terra" ["Don't touch the ground"--a game the kids like to play at recess].

My first week of school

School is fun. The kids talk in Italian. They don't know a lot of English. I think they like it because I like it a lot, and they seem like they like it. Its really fun to have a lot of friends. If you are commenting, the thing you might have to talk about is your school. So, if you are commenting, please tell me about your school.

The lunch at our school is made from scratch [entirely organic food-KA]. Its not a cafeteria like home but its like a fancy restaurant because they have white tablecloths over beautiful tablecloths that are many colors. They serve us lots of kinds of food that comes from Italy.

Its not like at home where they have one teacher. This is a picture of our school. (Below)


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This is me and Astrea on the playground [the school's 1st grade only courtyard play area-KA].


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This is me coming out of the school on the first day. The person who is next to me is one of my best friends at the school. Her name is Guila [the girl in the pink shirt, whose mother turns out to be an Italian anthropologist who works in Senegal!-KMA]. There are four Guilas in my class. The lady behind me is my teacher [In glasses and a dark jacket--Danielle actually has three teachers who form her daily teaching team, but this woman is her main teacher-KMA]


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Here we are at the park [Danielle and two of the Guilas in her class on a playdate at Villa Sciarra].