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T: Dad?
Dad: Yes dad?
T: What is a century?
Dad: It’s a period of 100 years.
T: What’s a period? A point?
Dad:Period has more that one definition, more than one meaning. It could mean a full stop – or a period or a cycle of time.
T: Oh. One hundred years?
Dad: Yes.
T: Like 19 Century?
Dad: Yes. The 19th Century.
T: Is there a 30 Century?
Dad:There would be a 30th Century.
T: When?
Dad: In a 1000 years or so.
T: 995, 996, 997, 998,999, 1000?
Dad:Exactly.
T: Was there a 1 Century?
Dad:Yes. There was a 1st Century.
T: Was there a 2nd Century?
Dad:If there was a 19th Century and a 1st Century, then, there must have been all those Centuries between 1 and 19.
T: Oh. I knew that
T: It started with 0 Century?
Dad: Did it start with 0 Century?
Dad: No. It started with birth of Jesus Christ.
T: Oh (with excitement) baby Jesus was born in “0” Century?

Singing - “Go, tell it on the mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain,
That Jesus Christ is born"

T: Are you writing that dad? Why Are you writing that dad?

“Go, tell it on the mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere"

T: Dad? Can Jesus come to earth?
Dad: I don’t think so.
T: But I want him to come down to earth.
Dad:I don’t think he can.
T: But I want him to come down to earth. so I can see him.
T: Dad? When did Jesus die?
Dad: A long time ago.
T: I know. How old was he?
Dad:Around 33 or 34 years old.
T: How did he die?
Dad: He was crucified?
T: What is a crucified?
Dad:They puled his body up on a cross.
T: When he was alive?
Dad: Yes.
Dad: T: Who?
Dad:Soldiers of a Caesar of Roman Empire.
T: Who?
Dad:Some bad soldiers.
T: Why soldiers? There was a war?
Dad:You mean was there a war? No. Soldiers carried the orders of the Caesar. They were like the Police.
T: Oh. O.K. What did he do?
Dad:He did not do anything?
T: But why the soldiers wanted to kill him?
Dad:He wanted to help the poor people.
T: Oh!
T: Dad?
Dad:Yes honey?
T: If I was there when he died, I would be very sad.
Dad: I know.
T: Actually, dad! He did not die. He went to heaven.
Dad:How do you know that?
T: Mrs. W. told us.
Dad:You remember Mrs. W. my preschool teacher.
Dad: Do I remember her? Yes I do remember her.
T: Sweet lady. She was really good. When A. pulled my hair one day she came and put her in timeout. She took action! Did I tell you she had the same voice as Mrs. C. does?
Dad: Yes you did.
T: I want to tell her that.
Dad: She’s no longer with VBCC
T: Oh! But I want to write her. I want to see her.
Dad:I'll see what I can do.
T: Where is she?
Dad:She is retired now.
T: What is a retired?
Dad: She does not teach anymore.
T: Oh.
T: Dad?
Dad:Yes dad?
T: What is last supper?
Dad:You mean “The Last Supper.” How do you know about “The Last Supper”?
T: Oh. The painting.
Dad:Where?
T: AT the museum, remember at National Gallery of Art?
T: I do remember the large oil painting.
T: No. Actually it was wood.
Dad: A sculpture?
T: No a wood painting?
Dad: Was it black lines?
T: It was brown.
Dad:It was a woodcut.
T: Oh. O.K. Dad? What is last supper?
Dad:It’s the night Jesus told his twelve disciples that one of them would betray him.
T: How?
Dad:One of them goes to the soldiers. Do you know what "betray" means?
T: to tell on Jesus. I know betray. But, why? Why dad?
Dad:I don’t know.
T: What was his name?
Judas.
T: Dad? Can we go to National Gallery of Art?
Dad: Today? It’s too cold.
T: I want to go to National Gallery of Art. I want to go by metro.
Dad:It’s really cold outside.
T: I walk fast, dad. You said if I walk fast I warm up.
Dad: Do you want to look at the paintings of “The Last Supper?”
T: Actually, I want to eat chicken fingers there.


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