After getting some tea a few days ago I began walking to my before school playground duty. I got to the hallway where one entire wall is a map of the world. Standing there together were two of my more "tough guy" 5th grade boys. One was a new student to our school. They were pointing out the different places they had each lived (Sao Paolo, South Africa, Berlin, Oman, Hong Kong...), giving comparisons of what it was like to live there (maybe a favorite food, weather, memory, or sporting game they had there...) One of them started looking for Israel and was having a hard time finding it on the huge wall. They turned to me and asked me to help them find it. Once I pointed it out, they kept on with their stories of the world, including me in on their insights and experiences. For one of them, Mumbai is the 6th country he has lived in. The other one, his 4th.
It was fascinating to listen to them talk about such different places with such matter-of-factness. The ability to be in a new place and just accept things as "that's the way it is here" I think for most of us is not readily or easily accepted and understood.
These two boys have it. And they're 10 years old.
Rachel
That's crazy! What a lifestyle for those kids. I can imagine that it's chaotic for them tho?
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