De la distanta

De la distanta

Va scriu din Barcelona, din camera mea de hotel. Sunt singura aici, la invitatia Samsung, asa ca mi-e cam dor de baieti. Drept urmare, in postarea aceasta am sa va povestesc tot despre Vlad, mai precis despre una dintre cele mai amuzante replici pe care le-a dat pana acum.

 

EN: I am writing to you from Barcelona, from my hotel room. I am alone here, invited by Samsung, so I miss the boys. Therefore, in this post I will tell you about Vlad again, to be more precise about one of the funniest lines he gave me so far.

Povestea s-a intamplat chiar inainte de Craciun. Ma gandesc ca la vremea din Bucuresti, subiectul e potrivit… Bun, deci inainte de sosirea Mosului, copiii pregateau la gradinita cate un desen pentru el. Vlad e printre cei mai mici din grupa si desenele lui sunt … cum sa zic eu … de nepatruns. Colegii mai mari, mai ales fetitele, sunt la etapa la care deseneaza oameni cu gene la ochi, iar in lucrarile lui Vlad inca nu stii sigur care sunt ochii. Simte ca nu e punctul lui forte, drept urmare nici nu vrea sa exerseze. Efectiv nu vrea sa puna mana pe creion ori pe pensula. Ii place sa combine culori, ii place sa-si picteze figurinele din lut realizate la orele de modelaj, dar sa nu cumva sa ii ceri sa deseneze ceva anume, dupa o tema data. Ori in ziua respectiva tema lor era sa ii faca un desen lui Mos Craciun. E una destul de larga, nu putem nega. Tocmai de aceea o colega de-a lui iesise din sala cu un desen cu o fetita si un Mos Craciun langa, iar deasupra lor un curcubeu. Eram fascinata. I-am si spus-o, atat ei, cat si mamei. Un curcubeu? Un mos care are barba si sac? Wow. O felicit pe micuta si il astept in continuare pe Vlad sa iasa din clasa, cu desenul lui.

Dupa cateva minute apare cu o foaie mazgalita cu albastru, in acuarela, si cu o dunga foarte mica galbena, abia perceptibila, pe mijloc. O intreb pe educatoare, fara sa ma auda copilul: “Ar trebui sa ma ingrijorez?” – “Nuuu!” imi spune zambind. “Sa stiti ca explicatia e foarte buna!” Mi-a povestit ca il urmarisera in timpul lucrului. Il vazusera cum umple toata foaia doar cu vopsea albastra, miscand pensula aparent neglijent. Asa ca ii reamintisera ca trebuie sa isi dea toata silinta, pentru ca e totusi desenul pentru Mos Craciun. El a dat din cap ca asta face si a continuat in acelasi stil:

“Dar ce si desenat aici, Vlad?”

“Pe Mos Craciun.” Pagina era asa cum o gasisem eu: albastra si cu o dunga foarte fina cu galben pe mijloc… Vazand probabil expresia nedumerita a educatoarei, a venit si explicatia:

“Asta e cerul. Iar Mos Craciun merge atat de repede ca NU il vezi! Aici cu galben e superviteza lui. Merge foarte foarte repede. De aia nu se vede…”

Nu e talentat la desen, dar imi dau seama ca este un tip creativ. Mi-e teama doar sa nu vina si la scoala cu cine stie ce explicatii cand nu isi va face temele…

Si iata cum aceasta “perla”  ramane scrisa pe blog si voi putea ca peste ani, cand memoria va ceda, sa ma bucur de ea.

In poze port rochie Framboise. Foto: Stefan Dani.

EN: The story happened right before Christmas. I’m thinking with the weather in Bucharest, the topic is appropriate… Ok, so right before Santa came to us, the children in kindergarten prepared a drawing for him. Vlad is one of the youngest in his group and his drawings are…how should I put it…hard to understand. His older colleagues, especially the girls, are at the stage of drawing people with eyelashes, and in Vlad’s drawings it’s hard to tell which are the eyes. He feels that it’s not his strong point, so he doesn’t even want to practice. He just doesn’t want to pick up the a crayon or a brush. He likes to combine colors, he likes to paint the clay figurines he made in modelling class, but he doesn’t want to draw after a given theme.  And on that day, the theme was a drawing for Santa Claus. It’s a pretty broad one, there’s no denying. A girl in his classes made a drawing of a little girl standing next to a Santa Claus, and above them a rainbow. I was fascinated. I told it both to her and her mother. A rainbow? A Santa with beard and a bag with toys? Wow. I congratulate her and wait for Vlad to come out with his drawing.

After a few minutes he shows up with a piece of paper smudged with blue and a very thin yellow line, barely visible, right in the middle. I ask the teacher, without him hearing me: “Should I be worried?”- “Nooo!” she says smiling. “You should know that his explanation is very good!” She told me that they had watched him working. She had seen him fill the entire sheet with blue paint, moving the brush in a negligent way. So they reminded him that he has to try really hard, because after all it is a drawing for Santa Claus. He nodded and kept going:

“But what did you draw here, Vlad?”

“Santa Claus.” The page was exactly as I found it: blue with a very fine yellow line in the middle…. Probably after seeing his teacher’s baffled look, he delivered the explanation:

“This is the sky. And Santa is driving so fast that you CAN’T see them! Here with yellow is his super speed. He drives very fast. That’s why you can’t see it…”

He is not a very gifted painter, but I can tell he’s creative. I am only scared that he’ll also come up with such explanations in school, when he doesn’t do his homework…

And this how this story remains written on the blog and I’ll be able to enjoy it, over the years, when my memory will fade.

In the pictures I am wearing Framboise dress. Photo: Stefan Dani.