Yesterday Julian became a Bunny. He joined the Bunny classroom at ABC Preschool, the same school where Ava is a Lion. The classes are divided by the year the children were born (i.e. all 2005 kids together, all 2006 kids, etc.), and I suppose "Lions" sounds better than "2005 room." For some reason the Bunnies are comprised of kids born in 2006 and 2007. Not sure why they have the biggest age range for the kids where the age range makes the most difference ... and I'm not even going to ask. I think the answer would be something like: it just IS that way. And it's the BEST way, because it is that way. This, in my admittedly still limited experience, is the dark side of "the Swedish way." It's sort of an unquestioning commitment to the way things are done, regardless of your opinion of it.
I'm beginning to understand why Swedish women are ranked as the most trendy in the world -- in the literal sense that they follow the fashion trends like lemmings running off a cliff. Sometimes I feel like a telegram was hand-delivered to every woman in Sweden reading:
Skinny jeans and black boots still in. Stop. Huge scarves to be added to wardrobe, preferably in white. Stop. Keep wearing black and gray everywhere else unless forced by foreigner to do otherwise. Stop.
And God help me, today I wore exactly that!
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This made me laugh out loud! The part about the fashion trends that is, bunnies are just cute, not funny.
Just watch it, being here "too" long makes you go along with it. I love my black boots and big scarf, although I do try wear colour as much as possible.
By the way, don't you think the same holds for men? Beards and mustaches all around!
Hooray for having both kids at the same school!
Not so much hooray for skinny jeans.
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