We visited a school yesterday. We had a meeting inside and outside the window there grew a crowd, all wanting to see the foreigners who had come to their school. They don’t see a lot of white people. We were then outside and after a few minutes literally the entire school poured out of their classrooms to get a look at us. They were lined up along all of the railings, teachers and students alike. It was a high school but there were also some younger kids there, they all crowded around us to get a better view. I would take their picture and then show it to them, which would create a surge in the crowd as everyone wanted to see the picture.
As someone who generally doesn’t like being the center of attention, I was kind of overwhelmed by the whole thing. I just kind of kept waving and bowing and saying hello and thank you in Bengali when I would take a picture. Everywhere we go here, I really do just get stared at and create a crowd. And not just kids either, really anywhere we go now that we are outside of a major city everybody wants to just get a look at me. I never feel unsafe, it’s not an intimidating or dangerous looks, its really just curiosity and they’re probably just wondering what I am doing here.
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