Sunday, August 28, 2016

Back to School Fun

I have this friend here in Niamey who is always full of fun ideas and energy.   She never meets a stranger and has this ease with the culture here that I admire.  This year our families are carpooling together for school, which is great for both of us.  She does one way and I do the other and it helps both of our schedules.

The week before school started, she suggested that we take the kids out for some back to school photos.  She scouted out the location, which was right outside the city, in the middle of a field.  She picked it partly because they were constructing a new school just down from it and there was a pile of desks outside that she thought would make a good prop for our photos.

When we arrived, in her normal fashion, she just stopped the car and boldly asked if the gentlemen working on the school would mind if we used some desks and then she paid them a little bit to carry them over to the field, which they were happy to do.  In fact, they even offered to sell them to her!  We became quite the spectacle and had a small crowd by the time all of the photos were taken.

We laughed and laughed getting the pictures, partly because we felt like animals in the zoo, and partly because it was just a hoot to be sitting next to a hut, in borrowed desks, in the middle of a field taking photos.  

Her photos are much better than mine, as she is quite the photographer, but I can't remember to take a USB and get them from her.  So, these are just a few of the ones that I took.
 Here is the whole crew!
It is hard for me to believe this guy is a 3rd grader!

 Seniors!
 Never were there such devoted sisters.  Unless there is one cookie left on the counter.  Then it's every man for himself!
 This boy...eating constantly.  My friend brought an apple as a prop and before we could blink, Isaac had eaten it!
 Hey, hey we're the Monkees.
 or maybe the Von Trapp children?
 These random cows didn't mind our presence.
 CD cover
 This was their "No Abby, don't go!" pose.  I cannot believe that we only  have this school year left before she spreads her wings and heads to university.
This girl.  She is such a joy in our family.  They all are though!

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