I sat down with Laurenco today to try and start working on the school schedule. He made a list of the teachers and seemed to realize for the first time that we're not going to have enough teachers for the students. Almost 2000 students and about 30 teachers.
The neighborhood kids have really been bothering me - annoying us at any given opportunity, without rest. I think it gets to me because they have nothing else to do all day and all night than to play and make noise outside of our house. What's wrong with this picture when thousands of Mozambicans are starving and dying of AIDS, but these healthy, able-bodied kids are doing nothing 90% of the time? And the NGOs and other aid organizations (including Peace Corps) are busy about 50% of the time? What's the message we're sending here?
Peace
John
