First day of the academic year is a real celebration at schools. Yard is full of dressed up children with huge bunches of flowers. For those, who are here for the first time, excitement of the welcoming ceremony is mixed with anxiety.
Once speeches are over, they have to let their mothers' hands off, enter the classroom, sit at the desk and start dealing with their independence. How does it look to meet discipline, rules and routine of academic space at a very young age? - 2 authors explore it in Armenian and Georgian schools.