Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Carlotta's FIRST day of School!

Today my niece Carlotta started 1st grade! I couldn't miss taking her to school and getting some pictures of her!
Here in Italy we start school late, and each Region can choose which day to start between the dates of September 13th and 20th. In the south we start later because of the heat, while in the north they start earlier so that they can have "snow days"

The school sign
Cristiana, Raffaele & Carlotta
Carlotta & I
Throughout elementary school, children are asked to wear these blue uniforms over their clothes or "bibs"as they call them here and depending on what grade they are in, they will receive a different color bow to wear around the collar.

The "bibs" have 2 functions:
1. so that they don't mess up their clothes
2. so that the kids are all the same and no jealousy about clothing can come up.
Gabri tagged along with us too!
Happy 1st day of school Carlotta!

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