I knew you'd catch that
Sorry for hi-jacking the thread for a bit here but there wasn't much happening in here anyways lately.. oh...oh.. yes there was. There was an awesome poem by Mysterious Phoenix that solved the mystery. So now that it's all wrapped up I thought I would use this as a platform to spread the word about the film
(how tacky hey? lol)
So this is the write up about it from the website. It's a topic I really like too, so pretty awesome.
Tumaini
By Steve Neufeld, Screenwriter
It is becoming impossible for Terry Bowman to reconcile his typical suburban lifestyle, with his first hand experience with extreme poverty. He is disappointed when Rene, his student, backs out of her plan to raise money to build a school in Kenya. Melody, his girlfriend, seems oblivious to his desire to make some serious sacrifices to make a difference. However, it is not until a hallucination in the form of a little Kenyan girl begins to haunt his classroom that he seriously doubts that he can teach highschool and live in the suburbs without being a hypocrite. His colleague Candace encourages him to follow his gut, but she is also vying for Terry’s affections. Meanwhile, Terry’s obsession is blinding him to Rene’s cries for help, as her incredible potential is squandered caring for her alcoholic mother. He begins to suspect that his vision, whose name is Tumaini, is there to convince him to engage in a more drastically humanitarian lifestyle, but when he starts moving in this direction, it finally dawns on him that he can have a huge impact on the world if he pours his desire for social justice, along with a lot of compassion and understanding, into his students.