Common Sense, Anyone?

A decision has been made by the education officials regarding whether or not Natalie has to take the exam (in Polish) to determine what level she should be in at school. Myles and I wrote a letter explaining that Natalie just arrived in Poland at the end of September. She cannot read, write, speak or understand Polish. We told them that we are leaving the country permanently in June. We advised them that Natalie has been enrolled in our school back in the US, and gave them that contact information in case they wanted to verify the information.

There was a big pow wow Monday morning with the education folks and our school director. The officials have decided that in the future international students will not have to take the Polish test. But this year Polish wisdom dictates that Natalie will have to show up and write her name on the test. That's it. So she will have to go to school on a day that we don't usually go, write her name on this test and head home. Couldn't someone else write her name for her (it's not a signature) so we don't have to trek to the school, I ask. No, she has to write her name herself. Hmm, seems like an illogical waste of time to me!

Last Monday, Natalie hurt her finger in PE at school. We taped it to a popsicle stick and I was prepared to get on with life. By the weekend, after a few showers, the tape needed to be changed. We first ran into a problem because Trey used the rest of the medical adhesive to make a bridge for his trains in his room. So we had to get some more and went about changing it out. Well, her finger was still swollen and very bruised on the underside. Poor Natalie just about fainted from the pain when we were retaping the finger. We are now reasonably certain that it is actually broken, and not just sprained or jammed like we originally thought. I ended up using the popsicle stick and taping her ring finger and middle finger together. I had brought an ace bandage with us from home. (You never know! And it now has come in handy.) So we wrapped her hand to secure the "splint," and will leave it to heal for a while now.

Ben had a couple of friends over Saturday night. They hung out, ate pizza and played computer games all night long. They are a nice group of boys. We hope that they will make the big trip across the Atlantic and come stay with us in the US in the near future.