Communication Incident at School

Going to school has been a pretty interesting and different experience for me. I am still getting used to the new place and the new environment and the new language. Since it is a big change from the routine that I have had for years, it is taking me some time to get settled in. I cry for a while and don't really want to go to school in the morning, but then Miss Shefali helds me for a while and then I am all OK. I study and play and eat and go to sleep and then cry a little after waking up and then I am all OK again.

Miss Shefali leaves at around 5:30 pm and my mommy comes to pick me up around 6:00 pm. So, Miss Karen takes care of me during that half an hour. Today, I told Miss Karen that I wanted to color. So, Miss Karen gave me a paper and some coloring pens. I found that couple of coloring pens did not have the cap on. So, I held two pens with cap in my right hand and 2 pens without the cap in my left hand and went to Miss Karen. I then told her that I wanted the "dhankanu" for the 2 pens without the cap. But since I was talking in Gujarati (dhankanu means the cap for the pen), she did not understand me. I started crying saying "Dhankanu, dhankanu" and she did not know what to do. Soon thereafter, my mommy came to pick me up and understood what I was saying. She explained to Miss Karen that I was crying for the pen caps and they both burst out laughing. They thought it was so silly that I was crying for the pen caps - and that too when I did not loose them. I was just being nice to them and my mommy found it funny :). She came home and told this incident to my Dad and he started laughing too.

Now they are trying to teach me some English to avoid such communication incidents at school.