KYP

At KYP, Kliptown Youth Program, a group of high school students from Massachusetts were visiting. They were pen pals. A wealthy American had donated a hundred small computers to KYP children to work on. As they learned English, they wrote to their pen pals in the USA. It was exciting to watch them share each other, sing songs and play games together. The KYP boys, big and small, in their rubber boots, gathered at the center and performed the Gum Boot Dance. The Gum Boot Dance goes back to the old mining time. It was an amazing dance in unison with joyful voices and rhythm. They tapped their knees and the front and backs of the boots, while clapping hands in between in a fast mode. It went very fast. I could never catch up, especially in my kimono. The first picture shows the Gum Boot Dance performance. There are office and library cabins in the background. The second picture shows the open area of the KYP ground with a couple of log cabins. The blue one on the right is the kitchen.