Tomorrow is Older Dreadful Creature's (ODC) first day in "Junior Infants" (???) at St. Maries of the Isle in Cork, Ireland. Her fourth school in four years, three cities and two countries--she will be well-prepared for next year: French military boarding school. We wandered over to the school today to buy some supplies and her official St. Maries of the Isle track suit (for real) and we're talking "old school" Roman Catholic: nuns in habits (carrying black jacks--just kidding), etc...--but extremely friendly welcoming people. ODC will be studying the ever practical Irish language (I thought it was the Chinese who were going to take over the world) and a multitude of other subjects. The older school girls were out on the streets today in a various array of lovely uniforms--two things Holy Rosary Edmonds could take note of: school ties and no white tennis shoes or sneakers on the young ladies or boys for that matter--looked so much nicer. We were also told that that school is so cold in the winter that the kids wear their track suits-- all day--to keep warm and also prepare them for Irish professional life.Irish lesson: "Now I'd be deceiving yeh if I'd said yes or no" = I don't know
