Burn!

As I walked up the hill toward the orphanage today, I passed a group of boys gathered around a fire. Some parts of this scenario weren't very strange, but others were most definitely interesting. For starters, it's not uncommon to see people burning garbage, but that usually takes place in one of the metal garbage cans that line the streets or in a deserted field in the middle of a group of apartment buildings and not on the middle of a sidewalk. It's also extremely common to walk by a group of boys or several groups of boys in that part of town. However I think the thing that struck me the most was what they were burning. Textbooks and old homework. School is out for the summer! I can't count the number of times that I have threatened to burn my textbooks, but the hope that someday I will be able to sell them back to the BYU Bookstore before they reach their quota has stopped me multiple times. Maybe this next semester, I'll just cut my losses, burn the books, and count it towards money spent for entertainment.

Fate of the Textbooks

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