Day 51 — Manisa

Monday, October 27, 2014

During dance time at the end of the day, I couldn’t keep my eyes off Manisa. I love watching her because she looks so happy to be dancing. Her infectious teethy smile plastered from ear to ear never fails to hold my attention. But kind of suddenly, her dancing sometimes ceases while her smile slowly fades away, and then she just stands there, as if the music stopped in her head and she suddenly realized she left the stove on at home this morning, but has no idea what to do next. My host mother, sitting beside me, noticed this and yelled out quite playfully, “Manisa!”. Then as if on cue, Manisa suddenly begins dancing again with smiles and all. Eventually, she stops again and this goes on like a cycle. It is one of the most amusing things to see and the best part is when she starts dancing again.