A University Students Story

One of the housemothers is a student in a Burmese University. She takes her courses by correspondence. She is wonderful lady (as are all the house mothers). As you may know, Burma is run by a military junta. They do what they like and what they liked at her university is to decide that they needed to take their final exam in a few days. It is not that far from here, but the roads are very bad now and a week they will be impassable. That would mean she would have to travel by boat back from Rangoon. She realized that her life would be in jeopardy if, as a single female, she traveled alone. Consequently, she will not take the test and have to take the class over again. We agreed to pay her university fees for the year. Before you think we are rich, a year at a university in Burma costs costs about $35.