tiabunna's photos with the keyword: school

For Macro Mondays 218 - 16 August 2021 - Es geht um alte Fotos.- It's about old photos (but a macro). From a 1949 school class photo (original in PiP). A few interesting points to note. First, the quality of the main photo (see PiP) was frankly dreadful (look at the out of focus back row), plus spots which clearly were from the negative or printing. Secondly, this was taken in sub-tropical Queensland in Australia's north and, back in those days, boys there went to primary school in bare feet in the warmer months.

If the girl with the pink pen (previous image) was distracted, this young lady in the upper primary was totally focussed on me wandering around, so through sign language we agreed I could take her portrait. She burst out laughing when I showed her the photo on the screen. :-) Another classroom photo in the PiP.

Amazingly, not only were we invited to visit the school (see earlier images), we were allowed to take photos in the classrooms. This young girl looked somewhat inattentive in class - probably distracted by the "farangs" (Lao term for westerners) with cameras. In the PiP an image of the early primary classroom.

The old school is alongside the new school and, as far as I could tell, is now used only for storage (see PiP). Apart from being much larger, there is no comparison with the new school.

Laos is a very poor country, but it seems to be placing a high emphasis on education. It was particularly good to see that international organisations are helping by building regional schools such as this (details in the PiP). This is in the same village as the houses I posted yesterday and it really gave a very positive feeling that some aid is being provided. One of our group was a retired teacher, who asked our guide if it was possible to visit a school. After a few phone calls for approval, we were welcomed on this visit which would be considered totally out of the question in Australia!