Picture Day!

Picture day at school is apparently an American tradition but I think it's a good one! The kids here don't often get pictures of themselves and I noticed in the past few weeks that whenever I take a picture of them they want to look at it immediately. I thought it would be fun to have a picture day at Bridge where each child could get their "school picture" taken. Today was the big day and it was so cute! Each of my 11 kids came out one by one to pose for their picture and they were so excited. I used my own digital camera and I have put the pictures on an external hard-drive which I'm going to take to the kodak store in town to have developed. I plan on making each child a card out of construction paper which says "Bridge Nursery School 2009" on the front, with their picture, name, and age on the inside. I'm really excited about it and so are they. Next week we are going to do an entire class picture which I will print and give to the head teacher Mama Minja (who has declared herself my African mom and has offered for me to live in her house so I can come back and teach). I really love it here and am so sad to think of leaving in 2 weeks. It's hard to believe I have already been here for a month! There are things I miss about home but leaving here will be unbelievably hard. Life here is very different but it is a place in which I have found myself very happy.