Gardening

Today we went to a local primary school to plant a garden. Gardens here are part of the curriculum so the kids work on the gardens on a regular basis when one exists at the school. The kids are always so excited to see us and they love to touch our arms so they can touch our white skin. You know how you can press down on your arm and when you lift your fingers up you can see your fingerprints? Well, they think this is the funniest thing ever and love to randomly come up to you and do it to your skin.

They also love photos and liked to ask me to take their picture and then let them see it on the screen. The picture of my with the three boys is one of my favorite pictures so far. The boy closest to me is in our ward and today was his birthday! His name is Simeona. The other picture is of the group after the garden was finished. It was a lot of hard work and I had to take lots of breaks but we were able to plant a lot – carrots, beans, lettuce, cabbage, eggplant, and tomatoes. Hopefully they’ll keep it up and be able to eat from what they planted.