When we arrived, the girls were in some gymnastics / physical education class outside. The music sounded fun, and the girls seemed to love dancing. We were told by our guide, Trung, that in the past these classes were done with music without lyrics, but now they use higher tempo music with fun lyrics etc and the kids apparently enjoy it more. It sure looked like fun!
The boys were playing a game called feathercock - they kick a shuttlecock like thing around to each other, and it isn't allowed to touch the ground. We play a similar game in the West with a little bag filled with sand or beans but I can't remember the name of it. I actually joined in and played with them for a while - mostly they laughed at my beginner skills!
This little girl in the next four pics attended the school with her two brothers while her father worked construction on the school site. We fell in love with her. Can you blame us?!
and here she is with her two brothers.
We took some lovely photos of groups of the kids, and then showed them the photos on the camera screen. They loved it, and would point each other out on the screen and crack up laughing. Whichever kid they pointed to on the screen usually got really shy and embarrassed and then they'd move on to make fun of someone else!
This woman with her child lives in the same village as the school and had just stopped by to watch the kids play during recess.
This woman lived in a small home adjacent to the school. Many of the kids who lived nearby were running around happily without any pants on.
Here are a few more random shots of some of the kids at the school. We tried our best to capture the beauty, innocence, liveliness and happiness of the children - but of course we could never do that justice...
We also have some video from the school of the boys playing feathercock, the girls playing and dancing and other shots from the school. We'll try to post them as soon as we can.
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