I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

by Stephanie Grisham

OUR VISIT TO MALAWI changed my life. It just did. It is a poor country but full of people who are so welcoming and do so much with so little. To this day I tell everyone that I would move there if I could. In fact, I told the president more than once that I wanted to be an ambassador there, which confused him every time I said it. “I would peg you as a European girl or just somewhere more elegant,” he’d reply. We had only one stop in Malawi, and that was to visit the Chipala Primary School. It was a school of roughly nine buildings, none of them with doors or windows. There were no desks in any of the buildings; instead, the children sat on the floor to learn. The school had so many children that there were not enough buildings, so many of the classes were held outside, with the children sitting in the red-brown dirt that got onto absolutely everything.