Earlier today my son's school had a deal where parents show up to talk about Ancestry. Last night I had to print out a few pictures from where he's from (only two places), send pictures of his ancestors to school, etc... then there'd be this deal here where the kids stand up and tell about it all. The parents come to listen or to stand up and offer more information about it. One of the pictures sent was a picture of Thomas Masaryk, who was the president of Czechoslovakia... who is part of his ancestry.

I had told my son that I wasn't going to stand-up in front of the class and talk, because I didn't like doing it when I was in school, and I certainly wasn't going to do it now. That he had to. So... I sit him down and tell him that he is mostly Czech with some German thrown in. Anyway... I get there, to the school, kids are going on and on saying they are part this and that and telling little stories the best that they can.

My son gets up there. He says: "My mom checked on the computer last night and I can't believe it but I'm Japanese!" He then held up the picture of Thomas Masaryk and said: "This man checked too and became president of the United States!"

His teacher just looked at me. I then had to get up and say that apparently my son was confused a touch. That he meant German and not Japanese and that I should have said Czechoslovakian instead of Czech. At which point the teacher made me talk a bit about our heritage.

All he had to say when I finally returned to the circle was... "You mean I'm not Japanese? I thought you checked!". My face was red!


Anyone else have a funny story about your kids or someone elses?

That's the most adorable story I think I've heard this year!!

Goodness!..

Do you think he'll get an "F"?

It's funny now... but, damn... my face was so red and so hot. I hate standing up in front of people and talking and I was all nervous because of what he had said and from having to be up there in front of other parents. And, I kept looking over at my son and he's just sitting there looking puzzled as all get out... lol. The snickers and the giggles... God, it was awful... lol.

But, yeah... this is written down and going into his baby book.

AzureStarr said:

Do you think you'll get an "F"?

2the9s said:

No... but, I probably will.

Thomas Garrigue Masaryk (March 7, 1850 - September 14, 1937) was a Czechoslovak independence advocate and first President of Czechoslovakia.

Masaryk was born in Hodonín (then called Göding in German), Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire, to a working-class family. As a youth he worked as a blacksmith. He studied in Brno, Leipzig and Vienna, and in 1882 was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the new Czech University in Prague. The following year he started publishing the magazine Athenaeum, devoted to Czech culture and science. He wrote many works on history, exposed as fraudulent supposed history taught before, and opposed racial prejudice.

He served in the Austrian Parliament from 1891 to 1893 in the Young Czech Party and again from 1907 to 1914 in the Realist Party, becoming an ever more vocal proponant of independence of the Slavic peoples from Austria-Hungary. When the First World War broke out he had to flee the country to avoid being arrested for treason, going to Geneva, Italy, and then London, where he continued to agitate for Czech independence. In 1917 he went to Russia to help organize Slavic resistance to the Austrians. In 1918 he went to the United States, where he convinced President Woodrow Wilson of the rightness of his cause.

With the fall of the Austrian Empire, the Allies recognized him as head of the Provisional Czech government, and in 1920 he was elected the first President of Czechoslovakia. He was re-elected twice. He held the office until 1935, when Edvard Benes succeeded him.

His son, Jan Masaryk, was a minster in the government of Benes.

2the9s said:

Yes. I know... now you know what my dad looks like! He looks a lot like that man now. But, not so grey.

Anyway... whenever they all came over this-a-way they changed the spelling to Masarik. Now y'all know my last name. 'Tis okay... I have no money in the bank.

One time when my sister was about 2 years old she came running over to me with her arms extended saying "I'm scary"

She meant to say "I'm scared"

Pure genius. I tell ya, he's gonna be a stand up comedian when he grow up

that's a cute story to tell future girlfriends.

Azure, that was a good "Gotcha..."...lol...it was the most sincere form of it, too, which makes it even better! LoL!



My baby girl is a ...Thank you, Lord!

Priceless is all I can say!

SHANNA said:

Your baby girl is a snail?!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Supa, she is so shy, and usually is very quiet around others.

She's like her dad!

SHANNA said:

LOL!!! I could not for the life of me figure out what in the world you could be saying by calling her a snail