"Are you serious about buying all the books, Vani?" asked Mai. They were at the bookstore this afternoon after class, buying some college books and Ivani was about to buy them all.
"Ya, ya, the list has been given, if you don't buy it, how do you learn it," said Ivani while browsing through the books she wanted to buy.
Mai swallowed. Do you know how much one accounting book costs, it can be a hundred thousand more because it is in English? Translated books are cheaper but still above fifty thousand rupiahs. Imagine if there were 10 books, maybe one million more just for books. Mai feels bad for her parents even though her father can afford to buy them all. Since childhood, Mai was taught to live simply, she never bought anything worth millions, even hundreds of thousands were rare.
