Back to school

Yesterday M. and I went into town to get his schoolstuff for this year.
a 17-inch multimap, very very hard to get with accompanying ruitjespapier (nowhere to be found) blanco papier (nowhere to be found) and lijntjespapier (last packet!), a very cool (namely Monster) gum, een lineaal, een etui, pencils and a sharpener. Let's just say The Lot.

Getting back he wrote his first name on the paper, just so everybody would know this map was his, and then wanted to know how to write his last name.
O and by the way, could i just teach him to write and read some more?

After we tried to explain this was not just a trick and could not be done in 5 minutes, R. taught him how to write the basics; I, fire, rose, nose, boos and bos.
O and tuinkabouter.
Coz it rhymed with Wouter, one of his schoolfriends.

Today when coming out of school, I asked R. to bring them to the office coz normally all i get out of them at dinner is;
Oh, school was OK.

Did you like seeing everyone again?
Yes.

And what exactly did you do?
Oh, i don't remember.

Right.
Well 5 minutes after the school bells rang, M. is losing interest fast coz all he managed to tell me, was he had learned how to write I (ik in Dutch) and then the phone rang and they where so distracted nothing else came out of them.

Jeez.
So much for quality time.