I have not been able to see much of the place as we are staying in the Swedish PRT camp and having our meetings here, but we did go out on a patrol around the area this morning. It was a quite surreal experience (as most things here are!). We were walking with four armed Swedish guards, one armed German guard and a bunch of Icelandic journalists and representatives from the Icelandic foreign ministry. That of course caused quite a commotion when we came to a school. There we were invited to go in by the headmaster.
The kids went wild. So wild that another headmaster or teacher started throwing small stones on the kids to get them back into school again!!
This was a school for both girls and boys although they went at different times (boys in the morning and girls in the afternoon) but it is clear that the segregation and differntiation between the sexes starts at an very early age. The girls were clearly thought to stay in the background!! Sad...
Some kids were more keen on being in the fore ground than others. This little boy wanted me to take his picture. I did. Once.
But then he kept coming back.
And even if I actually wanted to take a photo of something else, he just showed up in the picture anyway...
In the end he seemed to be everywhere...
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