Tuesday, 30 June 2009

What was your sign?

I inscribed K in the kindergarten of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Meeting the ladies there was itself an adventure for me, I immediately had a similar feeling what Hungarians have when seeing a policeman. I don't have to say: without any reason, he will be in very good hands from September.
He is big, I have to let him go and I already feel lonely. And I'm very old, having such a big child.
I had to choose a sign for him. I always thought that he would do it on the first day. So, since the ball and the car was taken, and the rest was butterfly and a very ugly flower, and the snail had eyes on the feet, I took the balloon. Which was his first nickname, Lufi.
Mine was - even though I didn't know the A.E. Bizottsag - the umbrella. I knew somebody who's was the knife.
What was yours?

8 comments:

lynx said...

OK, let me get this straight: you are not old, you are stupid :) but I absolutely understand how you can get lonely...I absolutely would, I guess.

My sign was a pear - my Mom chose it, because she claimed that was the only shape she could imagine embroidering on my stuff. And she did, indeed! You'll have an esay time with the ballon - or is it still necessary to saw the sign on the stuff?

I had a secret preference later on for the mushroom, if I remember well... that's where all this started: look how it got me, writing athesis on a mushrooms! :)

lynx said...

...and becoming dislexic/disgraphic at the same time....argh

i said...

I don't have to sew, it was a surprise, they have everything done for him. But I remember that I had to draw it on things later, and I yes, I was thinking on an easy one. Pear, its a good one :)

nanaimo said...

Mine was a comb. How vain.

I was in a state of shock when P started daycare. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to feel lonely, but I clearly felt that he is not big enough for this challenge. My unpleasant memories (talking about policemen)didn't help either.

tarelle said...

I try to remember as hard I can, but I don't think we ever had signs at my kindergarten!

I will run an investigation, though. Well, my memories don't go back to when I was aged 1 or 2, as for some of us. So I need me mom's help. Moooom !

You see, after 32 years, moms don't feel so lonely, sometimes. So there is hope...
Puszik

tarelle said...

Now I think of it, and since some signs seem to make a lifelong impression (like lynx' mushroom) I guess that if I ever had a sign, it must have been a pie chart, or a square-root sign. Poor me.

nanaimo said...

Well, yes, pie-charts, scatter plots and a bell curve would be just appropriate for the Academy Kindergarten!
As I think of it, maybe the comb of mine wasn't a vanity item, it was probably a comb used to make pockets in gels.

lynx said...

nanaimo :DDDD