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Dude: The Joy of Being a Cultural Ambassador

May 16, 2010 by Steve Peifer

I have twelve students who require obtaining educational visa’s in order to study in the United States. It involves compiling a packet of eleven different documents and then making an appointment at the US Embassy for an interview. The US Embassy interestingly schedules all appointments at 7am. So, you arrive at 7am and stand outside for hours with hundreds of others before they let you in, and then you sit inside for several hours waiting for your student’s turn. Often,...

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Christmas 2009

December 23, 2009 by Steve Peifer

We know your secret identity.
You go around disguised as doctors and teachers and salespersons and stay at home moms, but we know who you really are.
You are the people who feed almost 20,000 students a lunch every school day.
You are the people who have built 17 solar computer centers with another 3 scheduled for completion in 2010.
You are the people who have heard the cry of the children of Africa, and you have not made peace with it.
We are so...

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No, the Black one

January 20, 2003 by Steve Peifer

Kenya has changed its laws, and to adopt, the courts appoint a guardian from the Kenyan Child Welfare Society to oversee how you raise the children. She was scheduled to come to our home, but at the last moment she asked us to come to her office. For those of you old enough to remember the old Batman show, her office looked like an abandoned factory now used for nefarious means by criminal masterminds. It was scary to go inside,...

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