spring??? Hasn't sprung here...

21-3-2007

At 1.05 spring has begun.
Only in name as at that moment a snowshower broke the sunrays.
Spring sure hasn't sprung here.

The nights are cold and most parts of the day have a kind of autumncharacter.

It's sad that after such a strange winter the start of spring isn't marked in a way that gives the feeling of new beginnings.

The children have finished the project about the prehistorical time.
It's always interesting how much teachers think to be able to tell and teach about a time we don't know nothing about.

Like some presenters on TV who tell seemingly rational and historical accounts when they stand at a place with about 5 stones.
We have a sport here at home, I very much like, because it stimulates phantasy, creativity and the critical senses: telling another story about those 5 stones that sounds just as logical as that professor in historics does.

I think my children can become great guides in our old town.
They will be able to tell, without even blinking their eyes, the most untrue stories like they're real life facts, just as those TV commentors do.

Spring... it hasn't sprung.
But the magazines and leaflets tell us this time is full of promises, and like the people who believe all those programs, the teachers who believe what they tell the children is right, I just have a passive mood and imagine what colours will be in my garden in a months time.

And you?