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11/27/07
My international kid
Categories: Raising international kids
Almost without preparation, my son Sam will today say good-bye to his first 'real' school, as the year has come to an abrupt ending that snuck up on me completely.
It seems like yesterday that I wrote about his first day in the Baie Lazare Crèche, the local version of kindergarten, but it was almost a year ago that we all went through the drama and trauma of big boy going to big boy school and all that entailed.
He cried every morning for a week when we'd leave him, but soon adjusted well and enjoyed his days.
He has learned to speak Creole over the year, and can... more
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