This is me in first grade:
We had to wear these white collars to school every day. Imagine keeping them clean and starched in Soviet conditions. In the photo, I’m wearing a festive day school uniform but the white collars had to be worn daily.
8 responses to “First Grade Memories”
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“the white collars had to be worn daily”
What always got me were the giant ass ribbons they put in schoolgirls’ hair…. what was that about?
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My mother bought me a big set of these ribbons for Klara. It took effort to explain why that wasn’t happening.
Imagine an American kid wearing this at school.
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A beautiful photo.
You know, both my mother and I thought it was visible in this picture that you had Jewish roots.
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And this is before the curl came into my hair giving me a real Jewfro. 😀😀
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Nah, you were a cutie, and by grade four or five you might no longer have cooties ;-D
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I love this photo.
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