With the completion of the Library Media Center building, the campus is complete. The buildings are simple, practical. On Saturday, after finishing their laundry, the girls sweep, wash, and generally tidy up their dormitory living spaces and their classrooms. Watching them, I think about how “real” these spaces must be for them because they take care of them, they are responsible for them. They know the contours and corners where dust may collect. They know the panes of the windows as they wash them, the pattern in the wood-grain of the furniture as they clean the surfaces.
The grounds are also attractively simple; everywhere you look, the eye is pleased by the color or contrast of a plant, a texture, or a color. The first few times Pearl was reviewing the photos she had taken of the campus, she noted that the verdant green grass, the yellow shrubbery, the startling azure sky are the same colors in the Rwandan flag. Perhaps this is how the colors were chosen. They are the colors of this beautiful landscape, this proud country.
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