The Pipaltar Nursery

This shot was taken in a nursery in Pipaltar (Nepal). Most of our group was teaching English at a nearby school. Three of the girls opted to help out at the nursery. Neither group knew the location of the other (or likely their own), so I set out with our translator, Sing Raj, to find the nursery. As is apt to happen, mis-communication led us a good half mile past the nursery, out of the town, and down the valley to a nearby river. Eventually we worked our way back to the unmarked nursery and met up with the girls. Two young Nepali women were in charge of a room of 6 children. This little boy (girl? It's so hard to tell with Nepali kids because the boys are often dressed as girls to trick the demons) had just woken up to find us scary foreigners in his nursery room and was upset. Children, though, love to see photos of themselves. So I took my camera, and after showing him several shots, his curiosity overcame his fear; resulting in this shot...