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Village schoolyard, 7:30 am. Everday the kids at the pirmary school line up, face the flag, and sing the national anthem. I could care less about the national anthem, but the sight of these guys getting ready for school, and excited to be at school, gets me kind of emotional. My firend Jose is on of two hoisters of the flag (he is wearing red and navy). |
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Friends going home from school for their lunch break. I was leaving the middle school in Ihosy, where I had just finished teaching an AIDS class, when I saw these girls walking arm in arm. I just like the picture... |
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With some of my middle school students after a class. These guys are in the 3eme ("troisieme") class in the Ihosy middle school, which means they are in their final year there before graduating on to high school. I took two pictures, one with me and one with Christine, who had been helping me out that day. For some reason all the girls chose to be in the picture with me, and all the boys wanted to be photographed with Christine... |
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Brushing teeth with the 7eme class. Thanks to a donation of toothbrushes and toothpaste from a class of American students at Titusville Senior High in Western Pennsylvania (thanks y'all), I was able to talk about dental hygiene in one of my classes and then actually give the kids toothbrshes to practice with and to keep before sending them home. |
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Myself and another of the middle school classes I taught all spring semester of 2004. These guys are in the 4eme class, which means they are one year behind the 3eme...in a weird French educational system where the numbers go down intsead of up the older you get and the further you go in school. They had to make it more complicated, didn't they? |
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My friend Todzo demonstrates "proper" toothbrushing to his classmates. You know, when I asked for volunteers to come up and demonstrate this stuff, I realized that I don't really know what "proper" toothbrushing is myself. I couldn't remember whether you are supposed to go in a circular motion or from side to side...so I kind of left it up to the kids. |
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Mr. Bonaventure and I standing in front of the classroom. This guy is one of the teachers I work with at the Ihosy middle school. I co-taught classes with him about reproductive health, AIDS, teen pregnancy, etc; last semester. He was alawys trying to impress me with his knowledge of English slang and his ability to sing American pop music. Great guy. |
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Christine visited my village a few times while we were still both in-country together...and I always tried to get her to teach with me in the primary school. Here, I suggested we play a Malagasy game with the kids that they had taught me once...it's like a cross between innocent-enough "Red Rover, Red Rover" and hard-core sumo wrestling. Basically, two teams face off against each other, sing a little bit, advance into each other's territory, and then elect one representative each to enter a wrestling match. Yeah, it's a kid's game... |
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One team of kids size up their competition, who have lined up opposite them (not pictured). Interesting how the boys grouped together to form one team and the girls formed the other team. Also interesting how the girls' team kicked ass in the wrestling matches, winning almost every time...but I guess it's not all that surprising when you consider that the girls are taller and stronger than the boys at their age. |
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So, here Mme. Delphine (the principal) and Christine are about to wrestle each other in that "children's game" that I talked about earlier. Notice how Mme. Delphine takes it really seriously and Christine is laughing at how funny it is to be wrestling an old lady...well, Chris won the match by pulling Mme. across the line in the sand marked by where their feet touch one another. |
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