Boys' essays

To shoot this photo I used the 300mm lens Garrie got for me which Zeny brought to Nigeria. This photo was taken during the film showing (a cartoon film) on St Josemaria. I asked the boys to write an essay after the film. The things they wrote are very interesting. Some of them would write not about the film but on some latent knowledge they already had. For example one of them wrote (this is the transcription):

"When Josemaria was a small boy, he used to (be) a bad boy because when his parents sometimes tell him to do something he will refuse to do it for example like when they tell him to eat he refuse and when their grandparents come he refuse to greet them he will hide inside the bed. So when he grew up he went for confession and he promise that he would not do any bad things again. And he told his father hta he wanted to become a priest and his father was very happy with him and he also told his mother. He always go to the church and pray"

As you can see there is no place in the film wher it was shown that Josemaria went to confession. This boy however included that, probably because of his training at home - his parents are both
supernumeraries. I imagine he always attach repentance to confession!

So you see what I enjoy.