Mina stood on stage, not entirely uncomfortable because she had begun to get used to being stared at. She opened her speech with statistical facts, and she backed it up with remarks about the current education system. She also remembered to mention that the program she was there to support was flawed by recollecting her own past.
Each year, the schools Mina attended would join the lottery for upgraded resources, and each year they lost out to a school that was nowhere near as bad. The reason was because no one cared about New Providence. As far as the citizens of Pan were concerned, the place was a mountain village filled with people who wanted to stay isolated and ignorant, and it was evident in every aspect of the place, down to the library which basically had nothing.
