1.09.09

"Happy celebration!"
"Pfff, yeah, right! But happy celebration to you too!"

What celebration?! 1st of September.
Here, where I am now, it is something like a celebration. With shitloads of beautiful autumn flowers that one can get in it's fron or back, by that matter, garden or just a flower bed!
People saying goodbye to summer all together. Here it is like the New Year. I will do this and that this year: eat less junk food, be more social, drink more on Fridays, go to all my lessons (NOT), ah yeah - study better. At least pass all my subjects.

I am detached from this ritual for 2 years now. I wish. My mom is a teacher. I admire her. I couldn't live through the 1st September OVER and OVER and OVER again! (for her it is 25 1st Septembers!)
But somehow it is important here. Childeren do wait for it when the last week of August is all pouring cats and dogs and there is mud everywhere and it is cold.

It starts with "Have a successful new academic year! Teacher Mara, or Inta, or Kat, or Janis" written on the black board with colorful chalk! (I had to write my mom's message, and i drew few flowers too! one pink, one red, blue and a yellow one! that's the way aha aha I like it, aha aha!)
Then the teacher comes in with news about new students, teachers, curriculum changes and all the other bad news. Then there is an educative boring and embarrasing story about someone or something or some lesson that we have to learn this year. And other stuff like that!

Then we all go outside. We all together sing the national anthem and the head misstress says something! The new classes have their march (usually it is the 1st grade and the last one in highschool-12th.) and we are supposed to feel lifted and guess what: we do!!!

And this is part of why we are smarter then most of the Europe. Why we can! (well the question if we are doing anything is a different one! :D)

So - happy 1st September my peeps!

P.S. sorry for the grammer mistakes. this computer dosn't correct them!