The life and times of Oscar Marcos Perez-Cytron. Born Thanksgiving Day 11/22/01.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
2:59 AM posted by Oscar
Oscar's last week of school. He's really coming into his own these days and school has been going really well. Lately he sometimes inadvertantly calls me Caterina. He told me that she is the Sun and he is the Moon and that they love each other. All of a sudden, he seems to have lots of girl admirers. He hangs out with a group of older girls: Carmen, Carmen and Candela. He lets them hold him and kiss him and hold his hand and carry him around and baby him. Today we met another older girl who has adopted him at school. Her name is Clara and we just figured out today that she is half-American and speaks English perfectly. Neither one of them had any idea that the other spoke English and they were completely shocked.
It's crazy how many people we now know through him. This place really feels like home now. The school is such a tight-knit little community and I think that he has finally managed to break into the "Spanish mafia" and become one of them. He is speaking amazingly well. No one would guess that he isn't Spanish by the way he talks, though they would by the way he acts. He's not nearly as stoic as the other kids. He's still quite the clown.
I have also broken into the Spanish mafia at my school as well... It just takes time to figure out how things work here. This year was quite the learning experience for us all. It seems like a bizarro world at times. The more my American expectations get eroded, the easier it is to get things done. It also helps a lot to know people who are in the same boat. My classes and exams are over now. The level of difficulty in a few of my classes was unbelievably high--beyond anything that I've ever encountered. We'll see how I do... In one of my classes, only a third of the students passed the exam the first semester (and one of them was me--just barely). And this seems to be the norm. We'll see how it goes...
Christian is still plugging away on this work visa. It's been one thing after another and now I think all he has to do is wait for approval (probably 3 or 4 months) and eventually go back to the US to apply for the visa in person.
He just got home from his gig...
Ah, and one last anecdote. Oscar was giving me a hard time about something and I told him that I wouldn't let him watch his Muzzy DVD if he didn't do X. He said, "That doesn't make sense." I insisted that it did indeed make sense. I said, "Muzzy is for boys who listen to their mothers." He disagreed and said, "No mama, you are wrong, Muzzy doesn't have anything to do with that. Muzzy is for boys who are interested in learning different languages like French and German and Italian. Mama, don't you understand? IT'S A D-V-D FOR TEACHING PEOPLE TO TALK IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES." He said the last line very slowly and deliberately as if he were talking to an idiot. I'm afraid the Cytron lawyer genes may be manifesting themselves...
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