Lessons Learned

I had a student to come back and visit me the other day. I., is a senior now and had spent two years in his native country of Tonga since leaving me. He told me that he went there with a gangsta attitude and quickly lost it by being beaten almost to death by his family members. He also had to walk over a mile to get a snack (had to climb and cut his own coconuts).

He said that the greatest lesson learned in Tonga was that "If you ain't dead, you're alright."