It’s fascinating to watch Ella circle around the challenge before her. Rather than write the next letter, she will choose a complicated method of holding up the paper to the window with the letter card behind and attempt to trace it. Or she’ll decide the edge of the paper needs to be trimmed and then another piece of paper taped on in order to mark which activities we complete. The second piece of paper needs to be a copy of the pencil drawing of the dolphin she did earlier. Of course the copier is not plugged in so that is another several minutes of explaining why its not working and why we are not going to plug it in RIGHT NOW. And so on.
For me conversations in Sicily are like this about everything. About what to eat for dinner, when to eat, how many cherry tomatoes go in the salad, how should they be cut, when should we go to the pool, who is going, should we wait for so and so or go now. Everything is a complicated group discussion in a language I only partially understand.
Ella looked through a small, paperback Italian/English dictionary today and said, “This looks like scribbles.” Looking at that density of tiny letters must dizzying for her.
But you should see her dance.
Distractions/Tangents:
