First Day of School

Yesterday was the first day of school here. My host family even had to go back to school. And everyone wears uniforms. The little kids wear green plaid shirts and jeans. The older kids wear blue shirts and jeans. Henna (my host sister) wears a yellow golf shirt and jeans. It was adorable to see all these little kids with their backpacks on and matching clothes trotting down the roads on their way to school.

On Friday, Henna and I went back to school shopping and since I have arrived I have been fascinated to note that every store (and I mean EVERY store) offers school supplies. Imagine next to a bin of underwear is a stack of notebooks and a few pencils or pens and maybe a bag or two. Strange, yet practical I suppose as you can go anywhere to get supplies and not just a store or two. I'm guessing this is only leading up to back to school, but I haven't been back to any stores since school started to verify this.

Note that I said everyone wears jeans here. I can't for the life of me figure out how they tolerate it in this heat, but yet there they all are, wearing their jeans and not seeming to even notice the heat. I hate them a little for that. I wonder if I'll get to that point. If so, a Manitoba summer will be laughable to me, now won't it!