New acquaintance and site

The mother of a business partner of mine that I just met today is a jolly and peppy 81 year old lady with beautiful white hair. She greeted me in Italian when I entered her apartment on the 2nd floor of a large establishment that includes more than one business of her family.

She comes herself from a well to do family that includes a laywer and several medical doctors. One of her 3 sons is a pharmacist that also owns a medical tests laboratory, right on the premises. She surprised me when she told me of having been, as a teenager, a student of my paternal uncle, whom she remembers very well.

Another son has built a kindergarten, nursery school on the 2nd, 3rd, and top floor of their property, which is quite large. He gave me a tour of it, and it was a delight to see the various rooms, where children (from 3 to 7 years of age) are taught, fed, and cared for Monday thru Friday, from 7am to 5pm, and on Saturday from 7am to 1pm.


The whole place is set up with great care and taste. It's bright, colorful, and very practical, from the building entrance, all the way up the floors, with pretty large paintings in vivid colors on the walls everywhere.


It's furnished with a complete kitchen that feeds the children 3 times a day, bathrooms fit for babies, and even a couple of rooms for napping.



Drawings and children's work are displayed everywhere.


On the top floor there is a huge, fenced in terrace, and a roomy playroom surrounded by large windows on 3 sides.


This was an interesting and pleasurable afternoon and visit.