When I first arrived, I looked at every­thing with wide-open eyes. Now, I’ve grown used to the every­day things. But still, the adap­ta­tion process is end­less for some­one born and raised in anoth­er country.

It’s very rare to see chil­dren of the same age as Mark walk­ing alone on the street. Kids are brought to school an hour before class­es start, and they social­ize. They inter­act when they are picked up after school.

My chil­dren actu­al­ly bought me a bicy­cle. On Fri­day, they went to the store for jeans (maybe that was an excuse), and they came back with­out jeans but with a bicy­cle. Now, in the evenings when Mark doesn’t have prac­tice, they’re tor­tur­ing him with a healthy lifestyle 🙂

Some peo­ple believe that mod­ern chil­dren are not inter­est­ed in the books we grew up with, our old car­toons. Yes, there are many books and films that are ide­o­log­i­cal­ly out­dat­ed, but there are also clas­sic old, good films and cartoons.