Tell Laura I Love Her

Laura moved to London when she was four.

She did not know any word of English speaking only Serbian and German.

Her first year in school was a funny mixture of three languages, “Laura’s language” how we called it. However, she quickly settled and learned English as a native language.

Her preschool teacher Ms Hearn from Chesterton Primary School in Battersea was a wonderful pedagogue and helped her enormously not only to learn English also to adapt to a new culture.

At home she still continued to speak Serbian, as we thought for her emotional growth mother tongue was very important.

At the beginning, Laura didn’t hesitate to speak up words of a different languages if she wanted to say something. And, she always wanted to say something! She would say: “I am going ‘zu’ ‘skolu”‘. The other needed to catch up. She loved to express herself, being very talkative.

Once she was named by her teacher ‘world record talker’, and by her friends ‘amusing and caring person’ that ‘always make us all laugh’.

She always was capable of inventing a story in a minute of time, just letting her imagination guide her.

I remember times and times waiting in theatre hall for Laura’s numerous surgeries. She was, seemingly the most relaxed, comforting us with her funny fantasy stories.

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