I´m getting settled here, slowly but surely. And to cement my new involvement in the community, I attended the preK graduation this past week. First, all the graduates line up at one end of town with their opposite sex parents, and they walk in a grand procession through the whole town, ending at the school.
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Then they get to walk under these cool palm frond arches one at a time while their name is called.
Then they´re are a bunch of speeches and each kid gets to walk up on stage and receive a certificate. There are also awards for best conduct, etc.
Finally, there was some folkloric dancing, two to be exact. Here´s a photo of one of them. The kids are my niece and nephew with my current host family. She also won the best student in preK award.
And a wild life update. This gigantic spider was in my letrine the other night and about scared the crap out of me since I didn´t see it on the door until after I had already entered and sat. After my shock, however, I knew I just had to take a picture. It was about 3 inches across.
And this moth was on my rafters yesterday morning. It doesn´t look that big here, but in reality it was somewhere between 7 and 9 inches across from what I could estimate. Those tiles you see are almost a foot across, so this guy is pretty big.
If anyone has time or interest to ID these things for me, please do so, since my access to internet is limited. I would love to post any comments with species identifications.
Comments
biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Animals/Spiders/
no luck on th moth yet.
Glad to hear you are meeting people. Talk to you soon.
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