The playground in the courtyard of a large residential building, which after breakfast is usually filled with children from the "Salvija" kindergarten, was empty that sunny morning. Instead one could hear the din of excited children's and adults' voices through the open kindergarten door.

That day the "Salvija" was the site of both a happy and a sad event: the send-off of five young pupils to primary school. On September 1 they will gather up their textbooks and notebooks, and accompanied by mothers, fathers, grandmothers or grandfathers, will head off for the first time not to kindergarten, but to regular school.