day 34

Gargamel, one of my classroom pets, died last night. He was a beautiful oriental fire-bellied toad and had been my pet for the past 3 1/2 years. I took him out of his enclosure to feed him during class yesterday and forgot to put him back. I feel terrible.

My students and I buried him in the field next to our school's playground this afternoon. They placed small stones all over the spot where we buried him and fashioned a cross out of sticks to put beside it. (That's what you see in the photo above.) A group of the girls even held hands and said some prayers for him - it was very sweet.