Finding my long lost love....

After sitting down and talking with each kid we have on scholarship, I was amazed to hear that none of them have school books or access to them. Apparently no one in Malawi does. They learn from writing down what the teacher teaches in class, and then they study the notes. Crazy. I just think about how many bad teachers I have had in my lifetime. At first, I felt like crying each time I heard this from a kid, but then I just got fired up. This is just ridiculous. How can you expect kids to pass and get a good education like this?

So, I have spent the last month and a half trying to get my hands on some text books for our kids to be able to use. I am not exaggerating when I say I probably spent more time in the last month and a half trying to get these books than I did studying my entire senior year in college. These were harder to get my hands on than a Cabbage Patch Kid was in 1984. I am not kidding. We can not even get the books for Form 3 and Form 4 (11th and 12th grade) as they have not finished printing them yet. Um….we are more than half way through the school year. I asked why they are not out yet and they said because the demand is so low. Hmmm….I am definitely not an economics major, but wouldn't demand be a little higher is the supply was there at the beginning of the school year as opposed to the end? Sometimes I just give up on trying to understand. I have been learning to just let things go.