Kids say the darndest things

Interacting with kids is always interesting, no matter what part of the world you live in. Here's some stories from the last week:


Friday, July 27th: I was helping out with the St Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network's day camp. We had crafts and games, and mini lectures set up for the kids. All of this was themed around learning about sea turtles and what the kids could do to help in the conservation effort of one of mother nature's most beautiful creatures. Come the end of the day the kids were eating popcorn and gathering their things to leave. One little boy walked right up to PCV Nate, tugged at his arm and said, "When do we get to see the elephants?"


Tuesday, July 31st: I was at Camp Abraham in the afternoon helping the kids prepare skits and performances for Thursdays talent show thing. I was working with little Levencia when 4 yr old Abby came up to me and said, "You're white"

"I know", I said chuckling.

"What happened?"

"I came out this way. When I was born"

"When you were a baby?"

"Yep."

Then she ran off down to the other room to watch the dancers

Yesterday: I am walking up the hill in my community to go to cricket practice. When I hit the corner at the main road there are always a bunch of kids playing at some tire swings there. This time there were 2 toddler-aged kids throwing what looked to be rocks at each other. As soon as they saw me one came running over, toting a rock of some sort in her hand. She was smiling and talking to me and I could tell she was wanting to launch it my way. I kept telling her "Don't throw that", but she just grinned and said something inaudible in dialect as I kept walking past. I thought I was safe as I made it past their yard, but then, to my surprise, something exploded behind me and then a stench of manure filled the air and I couldn't help but laugh. "Did she really throw a dry cow pattie at me?" I wondered. I didn't turn around, I just laughed to myself and trudged up hill and noted this as another this-is-the-peace-corps kind of moment.