Kindergarten

My walk across campus to and from my office takes me past the bright and cheerful BNU kindergarten. In the morning at the time I usually go by the yard is full of happy children playing. The school is open to non-campus families (for whom it is quite expensive, I'm told) and it has a good reputation. In the late evening the scene is like many US private schools, with SUVs and expensive cars crammed along the street, and harried looking parents in business suits and talking on cell phones rushing in to pick up their children before closing time.