Starting Early

School in Kenya starts way earlier than it does in the States. Here, kids that are going to "get a good education" start school when they are three years old -- some places as young as eighteen months. (Can you see the littlest girl in the front row? That's about how old she is.)


Little kids who are so tiny still that they have to be lifted on and off of the bus, because the steps come up to their waist, catch the bus at 6:00 in the morning and don't leave school until 4:00 in the afternoon.
I'm nineteen years old -- almost twenty -- and I think that that is a long school day. It's crazy to me that they go to preschool for that long every day. (They do get to take a nice long nap in the afternoon, though, which doesn't sound half bad...lol.)