"We didn’t think about anything but simply played with you!" After two decades, my former “classmates” from a primary school in a Bangladeshi village reflected on their childhood in front of my video camera. Despite the nostalgia they evoked, I know they were also preoccupied with their own thoughts. In 2000, I commenced a long-term fieldwork focusing on children’s socialization and the impacts of school education on that process. At the time, my linguistic abilities in Bangla were sufficiently limited to allow me to be accepted as a peer to the children of the village primary school. I lived with a local host family and spent my days studying in a class of fourth graders, playing and walking around the village with them. Most of the children were the first generation in their families to attend school, as their parents had no experience of going to school. I resided in the village for six months in 2000 and again for a year in 2003, during which time I formed 38 friendships with classmates (19 girls and 19 boys). Since that time, we have maintained our friendship and have met on a regular basis. Some have remained in the village, while others have migrated to urban cities or overseas to work. They have all married and are engaged in childcare for the next generation. The generation born in the 1990s in Bangladesh has undergone remarkable social transformation at each stage of life. I have frequently taken videos and subsequently watched them together. Visualizing their life at each stage could assist them in becoming more aware of their childhood memoir, thereby enabling me to create a multilayered ethnography of their life path. In my presentation, I will discuss the use of the visual method in walking with interlocutors through my half-life research.