Kokolishi

Kokolishi means shell in Papiamento. Kokolishi was the kindergarten of my childhood on Curaçao, where I do not remember the children but 4 events. Yet people keep telling me that they went to kindergarten with me all the time. Even now when I am in my 40s. 

Memories Kokolishi Kindergarten

The Memories I active remember are:

• That my drawings were called jogojogo, except for a beautiful painting with a sky that seemed almost real, and all the teachers liked it

• I can still remember climbing the frame and a fair at school where I pulled a small bottle of Glacial on a rope as a present 

• Every Monday and Fridays I had to wear a uniform and sing the anthem when the flag was being raised and let down

• The uniform was a red skirt and white shirt on Monday and Friday. The rest of the week I wore something else than an uniform.