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May 05, 2004

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I return home last night to find JC has a new handbag, a Barbie one (of course). Who would have guessed there could be so many variations of Barbie bags? Anyway, I asked her where she got it. She told me her teacher gave it to her. Puzzled, I asked her if her teacher gave all the girls in her class a Barbie bag. She told me only she got one. Puzzling. What was even more puzzling is the money that was inside the bag. Admittedly it was small change, a few dollars. But if I understand correctly, JC got not only the bag but some money as well.

At last my massive investment in school fees is paying (albeit small) dividends! I spent the rest of the evening following Misti the wonder dog around to see if I can recoup some the massive vetinary investment we've made in her, too. No luck yet but I'm hoping she'll cough up some money some time soon.

 posted by Simon on 05.05.04 at 11:10 AM in the




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I don't know. Maybe I am just the suspicious type, but if I had a teacher giving my child presents and money, I might want to get bit of understanding why, especially if my child was the only getting such.

 posted by: Kang A. Roo on 05.05.04 at 11:31 AM [permalink]

Mr Roo,

When your daughter is the only gweilo (white person) in the class, nothing strikes you as strange. Admittedly money is a little unusual, but she's received gifts from her teachers before. At first I was worried. Then I was amused. Now I am puzzled.

 posted by: Simon on 05.05.04 at 12:13 PM [permalink]

Maybe you need to get JC to stop telling her teachers about her love of Barbie and get her to spend more time talking about her love of diamonds.

You are making peanuts when you could be making the elephant. I may have just made that analogy up, but you get the meaning.

 posted by: paul on 05.05.04 at 02:34 PM [permalink]

I thought Misti left her little jewels all over the place

 posted by: da on 05.06.04 at 07:01 AM [permalink]




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