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Bursa shepherd

Hamamlikizik is a village the bus number 22E can take you from the centre of Bursa. The bus makes a stop here, or rather, it seems to be in the drivers schedule to take a break here for a cup of tea. He paid mine, and we parted as friends when he took the bus further to Cumalikizik. Now, although Hamamlikizik is quite nice itself, it seems that Cumalikizik formed the backdrop for some movie or tv-series, because of its many old houses. This drew attention to the place, and its now under restoration, a protected site, all that. I made a walk from Ham... to Cuma..., nice. Three or four miles, along an easy road. I ran into this boy, I pitied his poor existence, not going to school, but he told me he did this work after school and just for some hours.


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Dick Osseman17-Jan-2005 06:57
Hy Andrys,

Thanks for the comment on this and other pictures. I utterly forgot to write a bit more about this boy and what made me think he didn't visit school: he was shepherding a medium sized flock, and often kids his age will be kept out of school in order to let them do that kind of a job. However, he was a pupil, and a bright one at that. And happy indeed. Also, I now often ask children who seem to be kept out of school what class they are in, and if school is out already, and I tend to think many do visit school indeed, and after school hours are sent out to earn some extra money. My recent pictures from Izmir show some kids doing their homework in the street while "selling" paper handkerchiefs, so things are not as bleak as I tended to think.

Dick Osseman
Andrys Basten17-Jan-2005 04:40
I like this picture a lot, but you don't say why you'd assume he wasn't in school and what
"this work" refers to. Something to do with tourism? At any rate, that looks like a
very happy guy...