Dorita and I started school on the same day. While waiting in the schoolyard for dad to enroll us, I came to the conclusion that we were in the School of Flowers instead of Deutche Shule. I wondered why dad brought us here for there was no need to know more about flowers. Blue flowers were made of poison. Some flowers are called "dancing ladies". Sour flower stems can be eaten and taste like limes. Among flowers lives Milano, the elf. Children have to go to a special hill and ring around the roses in order to see him eating parsley. But seldom is he there for he is at his task opening roses and closing carnations. Instead of going there to be a teacher of flowers I would become a student of mean Herr Ruka.