Not the Only Photographer in the Classroom

Now that I’ve been to this 2nd grade class at Mene­lik II Pri­mary School a few times, there’s only mod­er­ate com­mo­tion and excite­ment from the kids when I visit. The last time, when bore­dom with the sci­ence les­son had reached a peak, a bunch of them devised a new diver­sion and turned the cam­eras in their OLPC XO lap­tops on me.

When I looked up from tak­ing this pic­ture, four other kids were hold­ing their lap­tops up above my head to take pic­tures of me. The teacher was relieved when I encour­aged them to get back to their les­son even though I wanted to egg them on and see what they’d make.

(See my ear­lier com­ments on Mess­ing Around with Pho­tog­ra­phy in Cross-Cultural Exchanges.)