Daydreaming is fun

In a media- and entertainment-starved rural Congo, village kids are easier fascinated.  They will sit around in the hot sun for hours watching and listening to a speech by village and health officials. 

It is just amazing to watch them observe something new.  They are little sponges.  But I think they are having fun, too. 

Are they daydreaming?  What are their dreams?  What does their future look like? 

Comments

[janinsanfran]

I just want to say, I love your blog. This is such an important insight -- that kids without a million flashing distractions are sponges, sucking up anything new and amazing. We don't get to see that much, though, like you, I've been a few places where it was visible.

Yet, ending extremely poverty breaks that innocent receptiveness down. And yet, we must!

[Woody M. Collins]

Thanks for your comments.