[ [link removed] ]Andrew teaching in Nicaragua
Thirty years ago this month, I moved to
Nicaragua. I’d graduated from college and accepted a job as an English
teacher in a rural high school.

Nicaragua had been devastated by a civil war—one our own government helped
finance. But the family that hosted me, as part of a sister-city project
with the United States, greeted me with open arms.

The year I spent in Central America remains one of the best of my life. It
was also one of the most transformative.

Like most teachers, I learned at least as much as I taught. One story has
haunted me ever since.

I asked my students what they wanted to do when they grew up. They filled
dozens of pages with their imagination.

But one student began his answer in a different way. “This is what I want
to do if I grow up,” he wrote.

Not when, but if.

Growing up was no sure thing in Nicaragua at the time. It’s still not—not
only in Central America, but for too many children in the U.S. and around
the world.

We can change that fact. Thirty years later, I’ve never stopped trying.

[2]Andrew Romanoff

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