This is an update on a post from exactly one year ago: Pandemic, home-schooling, and dragons. When the pandemic hit the US in early 2020, we decided that it would be the best to home-school our then-6-year old. She started reading on her own in the last months of 2020, and since then she has been reading several hours every day.
This is in Turkish. We translated a post from [GSnow@reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/GriefSupport/comments/d9685e/grief_comes_in_waves_important_message_from_8/) on grief to Turkish to share with a family member who lost a loved one.
When the pandemic hit the US in early 2020, we decided that it would be the best to home-school our 6-year old. What made it particularly hard was that we needed to teach her to read/write in English, which is not our native language. We have been reading together practically since the day she was born, but hadn’t attempted at all to teach her how to read or write.
Long distance commute My high school was about 50 km (~30 miles) away from where I lived. The public transport was painfully slow, and I had to take two or three buses, hence it took 1.5 hours on the average, sometimes way longer than that, to get to the school. I would either read a book, or just sleep. One thing that fascinated me every single time was the weather, the rain in particular.
A deep black rock caught her eye. She leaned over, and gently blew the dust off of the flat surface. She looked for her compass for a while, and found it in the 6th pocket. She gently put it on the flat rock. “This can’t be true! Just few minutes ago, it was showing the opposite direction as the north!” Her friend agreed: “There is something wrong in this weird place.