CHAPTER 8
“If We Could Do It, Then So Can This Place”
Sonia was a stick-thin fourteen-year-old girl.* She lived in a dry, sandy, long-impoverished region in Namibia, a country in southwest Africa. She wore her hair in braids.
Sonia was one of my students when I was a public secondary school teacher in rural Namibia. When she needed to get my attention, she would look at me for a long moment and smile a wide, toothy smile before addressing me. “Miss Sun,” she would say, in a voice barely above a whisper. When she giggled, she covered her mouth with the back of her hand. She was not my best student, but she was far from the worst. She tried hard, and sometimes when the homework I gave her class was extra difficult, she would knock softly on my ...
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