Bhutanese Girl at the Paro Tsechu
The last day of the Paro Tsechu was the most crowded.
I managed to get a seat in the stone-seat grandstand next to a
Bhutanese family. It eventually became so crowded there was no hope
of moving and I stayed in the grandstand all day. This is the
seven-year-old daughter.
Bhutan has compulsory, universal and free public education, though
delivery in the more rural areas is spotty due to lack of teachers and
funds. The language of instruction is English. They begin learning
English in the first grade, so the older children speak it
well, and many are reasonably fluent. This seven-year-old still had
only a few words and phrases, but we hit it off anyway.
Photo taken: April 16, 2003
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