Flat Erika

Hermina sent an email to me. There’s a box and a letter. I quickly asked, “who is the letter from”. When she responded, I knew she had arrived. Flat Erika is here. Flat Erika is part of a Flat Stanley class project.

Flat Stanley is a school project where children make a paper cut-out, draw a face and dress them. They then take on the name of the child who makes them; hence Flat Erika. Each child is asked to send their Flat cut-out to someone who will take them on adventures and journal what they learn. So yesterday, Flat Erika joined me. We will be permanently joined at the hip for the next forty days. My sons will be visiting and will escort her safely home to California when they leave.

I guess you might say I’m over the top. Why can’t I just take her a couple of place, take a picture and mail her back? Well, because it just isn’t my style. I am going to dress her in a traditional Saint Lucian national dress and she has already attended a college class. Of course, my sons are even more over the top than me. They are going to ensure she has another flat friend and are busy making “mad” plans for this adventure.

She is going to be an honorary Peace Corps Volunteer, she already has her own blog and she will be my BFF for the next forty days. The best thing about this is that I'm almost sixty years old and I can still have fun playing with paper dolls!