Until today, during these first eight months here in Africa, Simon had never mentioned skin colour nor given any indication that he realised his skin wasn't the same colour as most other people's. Then today at lunchtime, he was talking and laughing with our friend Abraham, and suddenly stopped and looked at him again, turned to me and said, "Oh! He's black! He's not like us. Why?" I gave a brief, three-year-old-friendly explanation of skin pigment and sun protection, and that satisfied him. I'm sure the subject will come back, probably when he realises that it's his skin colour (and not just his cuteness and good looks) which gains him so much attention from strangers here.
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