03/28/2007

Today we are going to the “exercise room”, since the children are watching a cartoon in the “music room”, were we usually do our bonding time. We played for a while then were invited to the “music room” to watch the Kazakhstan cartoon. They had set up little white benches for all the children. They filed in a small group of children that I would guess were about 2-3 years old. They all sat on a bench, and seemed very well behaved. They then filed in a larger group of 3-4 year olds. They all sat as well. As soon as they turned off the lights and started the cartoon, several off the young children started crying, so they took them out of the room.

The cartoon was a little scary we thought, though we couldn’t understand the language it had a 3 headed dragon like character that was eating several animals. Then it seemed to get ill and couldn’t fly. Then these three “wise men” called this mosquito like animal went and sucked blood from a small infant, it looked like the infant was on the verge of dying from this act, and then a bird was chasing the mosquito to get back the blood, and was chasing it when the blood was dropped and caused flowers to grow from the dirt. Suddenly the baby was better, and then the dragon fell out of this castle when it was chasing the bird and died. It was all very weird and scary; I was really surprised that this is what they chose to show 2-4 year olds. I was expecting a Disney movie or equivalent. The children for the most part sat quietly and watched the film. Then they were all escorted back to their rooms.