Lesson 8－Part 1
Everything was ready. //
I was very tired /
because I worked so hard /
to build the tower. //
People in my village /
heard the news /
and were coming to look at it. //
Some of these people /
had laughed at me for months. //
They thought I was strange /
when I told them /
I was trying to generate electricity from wind. //
“Here it goes,” /
I thought. //
I was born and brought up in Malawi, /
a small country in Africa. //
In December 2000, /
a terrible famine broke out /
in the country. //
First, /
we had to stop having breakfast /
to save what we had. //
Then, /
we soon had nothing to eat, /
and my school friends and many others died. //
Children had to stop going to school. //
Even when the famine was over, /
I still had to stay home /
to work in the fields /
because my father had not yet made enough money /
to send me back to school. //
I could not blame him. //
I said to myself, /
“If we had a good watering system, /
we could stay away from those problems /
in the future.” //
I wanted to change our life, /
which was determined /
by rain and the price of seed. //
I wanted to build a better future. //
