Oprah's South African School

We watched Oprah's television show last night, showing the building and opening of her Girls Academy in South Africa. By the end of the show, I think I had gone through two dozen tissues. It was all very moving, watching the hope and excitement of those girls when they found out they were chosen for the first class at the school. That program, in my opinion, should be shown in every American classroom. The television network is even repeating the show on Saturday night. I plan to watch it again, just to see the joy and hope and strength of those young girls.

And Oprah's school building..... it looked so welcoming and warm. The library, the classrooms, the dormitories, the dining hall..... every single thing was just so well-planned. If "love is in the details," then that school is oozing and flowing and pouring love out of and into every brick, every book, every pencil, every chair, every inch of space from the front gate to the edges of the grounds.
My fantasy-dream of moving to Hawaii? Forget that. We should move to South Africa and work at that school, doing whatever we can for generations of girls until we're too old to do much more than gaze at the beautiful scenery and the wildlife.

It was just the most heart-warming hour of television I think I've ever seen. We looked at Oprah's website.... you can donate to the school, from ten dollars to fifteen hundred dollars... from art supplies to medical checkups, from textbooks to tennis shoes.

Amazing what one person can do, what one woman can do, what one dream can do. We need to re-write our wills.