Physical Education.

The students have Saturday school every other weekend and for some reason all of the students have to wear white. This just is not practical for so many reasons. For one, it is the day they do exercises and sports. Also, it requires them to buy and own another uniform just for one day. Not to mention that white is the worst possible color for children to keep clean, especially when most everything here is washed by hand.

Amanda and I had a pretty good laugh watching the children in their exercise class. One student was required to bang on a drum while the other couple hundred students moved their arms to the beat. Their exercises didn’t look like they could possibly stretch or workout any muscles, but who am I to judge. The teacher walked back and forth with a stick calling out the exercises. He stopped once to say to the class they needed to be in unison and to not be so timid. Then he said the following, “You wouldn’t go into Pakistan like this.” He backed up timidly to demonstrate. He said, “No, you would go in like this!” Then he held his stick in front of him as if it were a gun and marched forward boldly shooting his gun. Wow. That is all I had to say. Wow. I could not stop laughing and feeling somewhat disturbed by that for the rest of the day.