If You Give a Kid a Cookie
03 Jan 2012 2 Comments
You might remember a previous post I wrote about baking cookies with my neighbors. Well, that was where it began.
It reminds me of that book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie because our relationship just keeps growing and growing.
If you give a (Kurdish) kid a cookie, she will want you to show her how you made them. When you are finished she will see all the dishes in the sink, she will wash them and probably end up cleaning the floors of the kitchen as well. She will keep mopping into the hall where she will notice the clean laundry in a pile. She will fold the laundry except for your cute new sweater, which she will try on. Seeing how good she looks in it, she will want to go home and show her family, she will bring you along. Once inside their home, you will surely be offered tea and cake. Seeing you have never had Kurdish cake, they can’t let you go until they have shown you how to make it…
Ok, so it didn’t all happen exactly like that, but almost! Now she comes over almost every day for help with her English homework and to help me with whatever I am working on (she is a great sous chef and actually likes to do the dishes!)
They invited us to a birthday party a few days ago. I got to help make the cake and then later we ate it all, and the custard and the torte… and this was all AFTER another party we had been to (many Kurds don’t keep track of when their kids are born so Jan 1 ends up being a popular birthday) Here is a pic of me with Bukan and her grandma.
