Hallmark

This is inspiration Hallmark would make a commercial about, or even a movie. Young, unwed mother trying to get her life back on track. I'm so proud I could jump up and down. In fact I really I had to suppress that urge, rather than become the even more bizarre American girl. My next door neighbor, Claudette, invited me over for a visit. As usual she wanted me to write a letter in English for her. It is always easier for me just to do the work quickly but less educational, for sure. I encouraged (aka forced against her pouting) her to write her own version and then I would correct her English.

She wanted to write a letter to the headmaster of her old secondary school. She had finished senior level five, specializing in accounting. But in 2008 she had to drop out for 'problems in life'. A year later she was pregnant. A year later she gives birth to a beautiful baby girl.

She's living with her younger sister, her grandmother and her little girl. Her baby is perhaps the cutest baby ever (no offense to my nephew). She literally smiles at anything and everything.

So Claudette is refocusing her life. Life without education isn't much of a life. She is already working on her English which is the not so secret secret to success in this country. It takes some kind of guts to go back to school.

I'm so happy I want to tutor her in every invigorating accounting class she has to take. In case you didn't notice the sarcasm on the word invigorating right next to the word accounting, I'm emphasize it here.

So here's to second chances.