Volcano, shmolcano; Our school bus is busted!

Up until this school year, Katitawa had a contracted taxi (truck) picking the kids up (some of them live very, very far). Since that money was basically being payed out constantly, with nothing to show for it in the end, we managed to finagle the money together over the summer for a little investment, and now the school has its own bus. A 1972 orange Volkswagon Combi.

Except, now, it is broken. There are kids who can't actually come to school without the daily pickup, because they live at such a distance (and up, and then down several mountains). So we've had to go back to the "old way", which is to pay the taxi. This is costing us money that we don't have (since we invested it in the bus). Long story short: we are short about $250 to fix the transmission and get the bus out of hock.

(Shameless plea for donations follows.) So, if you have an extra $5 or $10 laying around, please think about maybe going over to the Katitawa website and using the Paypal button to donate. (If you don't already have a Paypal account, you can get one at the Paypal Main Page .)