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  • first day at a new school can be daunting at the best of times.

  • But Camilla has just escaped from a country at war.

  • Along with her mom, Elena, she traveled five days from the Ukrainian city of Ethiopian to this town in southwest France.

  • I'm happy to see my daughter running playing, going to school with a smile, says Lena.

  • It is the greatest happiness for me.

  • Camilla and her mom Are just two of the roughly three million people who have left Ukraine, so many of them Children, A terrible trauma for a little girl who is not yet four, but she seems to be coping for the moment.

  • Things are going well.

  • We have to give her time to get her bearings.

  • There's still the language barrier.

  • We learned a few words in Ukrainian for the essentials Day one of a new life and a little coloring in.

  • So things can't be too bad.

first day at a new school can be daunting at the best of times.

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