Fresh View, New Start
As I got out of the metro at Mustek this morning at about 7:45, there were very few people on the street. Like the way that you get a suddenly expanded, clearer view of the landscape once the leaves have fallen from the trees, so I could see all the way to the end of Na Přikope. It´s really not all that far, but usually all you sea is a sea of humanity, a long and shapeless parade of pointlessly drifting people.
It was nice, it was fresh and it made me glad that I live in Prague and work in the center. Usually I get out of the metro at Naměsti Republiky, but this morning (and every morning from now on, because I’m a day behind on this and it’s now September 1st and school has begun) I had to drop Sam off at school first. The down side is I have to get up earlier and spend more time on public transport, the upside is that fresh and clean morning view.
Anyway, being the 1st day of school they just had class from 8 to 9 and I couldn’t pick him up until 1. We were a little bit worried that they wouldn’t have družina, but they did. I don´t know an English word for družina, we didn´t have that in American schools. It´s a wonderful concept. It´s kids staying after school, but it´s not punishment. They go, they play, they do whatever while one poor teacher sits at a desk and tries to ignore them, texting her friends and so forth. It´s so the kids don´t have to go home when their parents are still at work and it just really makes a whole lot of sense.
Anyway, we discussed the possibility of Sam coming, by himself, to my school. He probably could have handled it. It involves taking the metro and changing once but he´s a pretty mature kid. Still, he´s only 7 and I´m glad it didn´t come to that.
So, I was hoping that we´d have a flood of new students now that it´s September. We had two, one of whom paid. It´s a slow start, but it´s a start. And the view ahead is clear.
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