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Introducing Alfred

Feb 23, 2003 – 8:23

I was out doing the bidding of Peace Corps when I met Alfred. He’s the headsir of St. Xavier’s, a private school next door to Shripur, a government secondary school where I had been doing some scouting for a possible site for a volunteer.
St. Xavier’s facade suggested that it was an upper-tier school. Like its [...]

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Moving along, moving ahead

Nov 30, 2002 – 15:02

If I’m tired of talking about one thing it’s my work. As soon as I see a friend, the first thing that is asked is, So, how’s your school?
I tell and retell stories about teachers interrupting my classes, the headsir walking out of the office while I’m talking to him, and just the generally unwelcoming [...]

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