Timothée went 8 years to school. Three years in France and 5 years in Finland.

In France, there were many children in the classes and the days were very long, it was quite hard for so little children.
When we came to Finland and that, he went in a little village school, where there was, for all, 16 pupils, that changed all his life.

Soikkala's school

The school of Soikkala is located in the village of Hietanen, a very small village in the East of Finland, on a hill, nearby a forest of pine. By the window, one can admire the twinkling of the waves of the Hietanen's lake. I know that, as I had too looked at it in my childhood, because I went at this same school like my father and my mother before me.
Timothée liked his school, his teachers and Iita, the good fairy of the school, which prepared goods meals and took care of the children. At the recreation, Timothée went to the little kitchen to have a chat with her.

In class, he was a little reserved and quiet, but paid attention to the others and remained always polite.
His comrades of class never annoyed him though he was a foreigner or because of his difficulties with Finnish language.
If another child was annoyed, he took it heartly, and was concerned for the others. He didn't want to cause sorrow to nobody, prompt to apology if he thought of having hurted someone. He was just an ordinary and normal child, but however different.

Timothée was interested in same things as the other boys of his age; ice hockey (NHL), F1, PlayStation, football, cartoons etc. Timothée had, however, a hero; Donald Duck! He received each Wednesday the strip cartoons of Donald Duck, which he read from one end to another, in adition of all the other appearances of Donald Duck's strip cartoons. He visited twice Euro Disney.
Donald was also the hero of his drawings. Timothée could stay hours and hours sitting to draw, it was his favorite hobby. The rainy Sunday and winters afternoons he passed them around the Lego's bricks.

The marvellous world of books always take parts in the life of the lonely children. Timothée particularly, was fascinated and captivated by the adventures and of History. As well Greek mythology as the Winter War of Finland, Romanov and the kings of France became an alive reality in the sharp imagination of this child, which reflected themselves in his drawings and dreadfullies stories.

The desire to learn of Timothée was unbounded, questions didn't miss and an answer always had to be found. He thirst of knowing, he filled it by reading encyclopedies, books of geography and of history, there were never too much.

Eiffel Tower, June 2000

The mysteriouses doors of the history were opened when he visited the palaces of the Tsars in Russia or Napoleon's grave at Paris. A touch of the faraway countries he had it by eating exotic fruits, recently plucked, on the beautiful fine sand beaches of the Caribbean.
This multiculturel child had, of course, inevitably a rich and stimulative life. his life was short, but how much full of experiences and treasures of all kinds.

Timothée got Coco

During his last months, he gave affection to his puppy, Coco, a Belgian dog shepherd. This puppy had arrived in our home on Midsummer's Day and could make Timothée's joy.

When the forces begun to decrease and that the thread of the life frayed, hobbies decreased and the points of interests changed. Heaven became shaper, the little pilgrim's trip approached. Stories of the Bible became nearer, the desire to know his new country grew. Then together we begun to imagine how that will be over there. Timothée liked good food, like all French. So he asked: "Mummy what do we eat in Heaven?"



Timothée got the answer to all his questions. Now, his thirst of knowing is appeased and all became clear. The little disciple of Jesus received his diploma from the hands of Great Master with best appreciation, for his love and confidence in his Lord.