Tuesday, March 28, 2006



These kids are resting their heads on some rattan balls that they had been kicking around. They are dressed in little soccer uniforms, and are in a public area that is raised about 3 feet from the ground, with a marble floor and a huge thatched roof high overhead... a perfect playground in a city with predictable rains each afternoon. They were doing "headers" and playing a form of "keep it up." There were girls and boys, all about the ages of 8-12. Many older men in the traditional yellow,orange, brown sarongs and white shirts, stood watching with admiration. I wonder if they did such a thing when they were young..