Parade Day I Guess

There are three schools within a few minutes of my apartment. One is Beanstalk, where I teach. Right next to us is a new, very beautiful Montessori Kindergarten. The first day I was here, Bill and I stopped there and were invited in to see it. It was beyond anything I’ve ever seen and some day I want to go back a take a closer look at it. A couple days ago I ran into the young teacher who showed us around. She remembered me and was excited to see me again. Ditto.

The third school is what looks to me like a public Middle School, and it is the closest to Kandu, our apartment building. This morning I heard a sound that I’ve heard a few times before but couldn’t figure out. It sounded like hundreds of voices shouting in unison, and it seemed nearby but muffled by the apartment walls and windows. Then I realized that the sound was coming from the athletic field below me. It seemed to me that the entire school population had to be out there doing some kind of program...reminscent of the old regime...lots of slogan shouting, parading etc. This was around 7:15 in the morning. I grabbed my camera and took this picture. The red in the upper left is the Montessori school.