English Club

"When we graduate, my friend and I want to start an organization to teach people in rural areas how to read. I was volunteering at a clinic last year, and I saw a child die of Cholera because the mother couldn't remember the prescription instructions."

(Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo)

“The fact was they could not communicate with words, and it was a fact that led undoubtedly to much misunderstanding. Yet did it not also lead to a peculiar intimacy? …Do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies beyond the reach of words?”

— Virginia Woolf, Flush

They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.