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You guys know I’m just a cat right? You probably don’t think I care what happens to people so long as my food and water dishes are filled. Well that’s not really true I just heard last night about Ruby’s cousin and his girlfriend had lost their jobs as teachers because the school they worked in closed due to no money. Well it turns out that the people running the school along with some government types stole the money. Now we all know corruption in politics is everywhere but down here they do it with an attitude of you caught me so no what are you going to do and the answer is usually there’s nothing they can do. This situation is bad for the teachers, and it happened back in June the, the real shame is they’re just now getting the kids into other schools. There is also the fact that there is a large school building abandoned and it will probably stay that way for years. If Colombia wants to be more than a poor cousin to other South American economies it has to educate it’s young so that it can advance and although it’s great to maintain a cultured history it time to change the way people think so things can change and become more in tune with the rest of the world and I don’t mean just in music. This country needs geologists, engineers and scientist in all fields to not only be able to study advancements in their fields but to feel needed and appreciated but have the desire and incentive to stay here and help. Anyhow if any of our Colombian readers can help out these to dedicated people drop me a note in the comment section of this post and I’ll forward it on to our friends. In the mean time think about what you  can do to help the kids down here get an education and maybe even stop some of this corruption CIAO.