1/10 A Sunday Stroll

Before registration, someone (this year Bhola) goes around to Roldih and it's adjacent villages before registration and talks to the parents inviting their children to attend - mostly nursery and some Class I and II students.  Luckily, we got to join him. Since I'm trying to catch up on almost a month, I'm going to stick with some brief observations with more to come later. -  Small clearings with smooth propped and angled stones that look like sculptures used for thrashing rice.  Drying radishes spread out like a mural.  Rice sitting in the sun on a raised cement platform. Docile baby goats.  Flowers and animal reliefs inside a shadowy thatched hallway.  Mustard field photo shoots.  Laughing old men.  A small obscured corn field.  Children always following.  So many beautiful smiles and curious questions.  Mammoth Banyan Trees with very climbable roots.  World Vision villages.  A well with a bicycle wheel gear.  Squashes growing on the rooftops.  Dormant rice paddies.  Misty vistas. .... on the walk home, Bhola yelled "Hati, Hati!" (Elephant, Elephant!).  We ran to catch up ... out of breath and sooo excited.  Turns out it was only a ploy to get us to step up the pace;).