NEW YORK -- (AP) -- Elián González has adjusted well since returning to Cuba, with no ill effects from being pulled from the home of his Miami relatives by armed U.S. government agents, his father told NBC.

 The boy's only fear is television cameras, Juan Miguel González said.

 In the NBC report, shown on the Today show Wednesday one day before the first anniversary of Elián's return to Cuba, Elián is shown playing happily with second-grade classmates, jumping in a circle and playing musical chairs at his school in the Cuban city of Cárdenas.

 Elián was not interviewed but his father, a waiter at a resort for foreign tourists two hours from Havana, told NBC his son does not miss his Miami relatives, who tried to gain custody of the boy after his mother drowned trying to reach Florida on a raft. Elián was taken from the relatives' Miami home in April 2000.

 ``I feel fine and my family is very happy,'' González said. ``A year after all these events, life has gone back to normal. Everything is back to normal.''

 He said Elián also doesn't seem bothered by the days he spent in the water after a boat smuggling him and his mother to Florida sank in the Florida Straits in November 1999, killing her and 10 others. He said his son goes to the beach and plays in the water, and does mention his mother.

 ``There was never any need for him to see a psychologist because from the very beginning when I saw him in Washington he looked to me to be the same Elián as
 always . . . normal, just as expressive,'' he said.

 Phone calls to the home of Elián's Miami relatives were not answered.

 Family spokesman Armando Gutierrez said Thursday's anniversary would be a sad day for the family.

 He said he had not seen the NBC interview.

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