On watching Planet Earth with my girls club

It took me 20 minutes in to realize that, as we were watching the “Shallow Waters” segment in a place that is 7 hours from the ocean, there were not words for any of the plants, animals or things that they were seeing in the language that they speak at the house and that many of the people in our village only speak.

It took me 35 minutes in to realize that, due to a lack of textbooks and posters and pictures, this was the first time that many of these girls were seeing any of the animals that they had talked about in their biology class last year.

It took me the whole 43 minutes to convince myself that they believed this was all real.