Students and Shop Owners Reopen a Flooded Market After last Friday's rainstorm left the small market behind our school covered in mud, sixty students and about twenty shop owners cleaned it together over the weekend. By Monday morning, all fourteen of its stalls were open again. The storm sent muddy water into every stall and soaked boxes of fruit, bags of rice, and rolls of cloth. Early on Saturday, the students formed a long line and passed buckets of mud from hand to hand, while the owners scrubbed their shelves and spread their goods out to dry. At noon, a nearby bakery brought free bread for everyone. The fact that most of the volunteers had never met the owners before that weekend surprises many neighbors. "Without these students, we would have stayed closed for at least a week," said the owner of a vegetable stall. A second-year student added that the work felt lighter because no one did it alone. The owners now plan to hold a small festival next month as a way of saying thanks.