Census: Day 3

Posted by beth on March 23, 2010

If you haven’t already guessed, “Census: Day 2″ was AKA’d as Ode to a Government Pen. Here’s what happened today.

The whole time I’m sitting there at the community center, there’s an after-school program going on. The first day, the kids basically ignored me, but now they’re more and more curious about what I’m doing there. Yesterday, they were asking me all kinds of questions about the census. And they must have noticed me doing a lot of writing (with my government pen), so today two little girls came up to my table, and the following scene took place:

Kid #1: (Fiddling with my government pen) Do you have to write stuff down?
Me: Only if people come to ask me questions about the census.
(Both girls, standing in front of me, raise their hands straight up into the air, arms fully extended.)
Kid #1: I got a question.
Me: Oh yeah? What is it?
Kid #1: How’d you get your hair to grow like that?
Me: I dunno. It’s just how God made me, I guess.
Kid #2: I got a question.
Me: Shoot.
Kid #2: Who curls your hair?