Life: Idiotropic

Today was Luci's last day of school before the holiday break so all the parents and siblings were invited to join her class for a "presentation of songs and cookie party."

It was chaotic from start to end as expected with 18 four-year-old children and their families all clustered into a tiny little room, but Santa came and delivered presents to all the children whose parents, after much nagging by preschool staff, finally managed to find and wrap a gift of 5 Euros or less. This Santa was the same jolly German Santa who had come to see Arianna's class the week before, but he pronounced the names on the gifts fairly well as he handed them out and even got brave enough to talk with the kids a little. His thick accent didn't seem to throw them at all. They all posed as parents played popcorn jumping up and down and moving about for that perfect photo op angle and the kids just smiled unfazed by the craziness - with new gift in hand, it didn't matter how long they had to sit still and smile. Tiara tried to video, but that was difficult with adult heads popping in and out of the view (I could, with this video footage, probably do a very nice report about balding in Italian men).

The singing was audible though barely intelligible and Luci spent the entire singing time with her hands up covering her ears. Do I blame her? No. I would have also if etiquette allowed.

The day was finished off with lebkuchen (traditional German gingerbread-like cookies) including the white frosted ones that my girls like and then we left a bit early needing to pack for Paris. Excited that we're leaving tomorrow? YES!