Balan, Romania: At a ceremony for the dead in the spring of 2008, one of my preschoolers came up to me to show off his English. He was a stellar student, besides being sweet and one of the very few preschoolers who could answer "How are you" with "Good" instead of parroting back "How are you?" We crossed paths every morning on my way to my primary assignment, teaching at the high school, and he always offered a shy "Good morning."