chico

10/15
as i think of venturing out on my own i learn that chico is going to sta cecilia so after being told that it's 8 kms and asked if i'm sure i want to walk (they think i'm crazy) we're on our way. we had a nice leisurely walk and i taught chico english the whole way. it was hot and we were slap but we had fun.

chico is a nicaraguan boy abandoned by his family and bounced around since he was very little and i guess taken in and cared for by whoever had the means at the time. he has no idea who his parents are, where or when he was born, how old he is, nada. the family took him in a year or so ago and is in the process of trying to adopt him. they gave him a birthday of 9/28 and made him 16. i thought of hopping a bus to sta rosa but there is a border patrol between here and there and they board the bus looking for nicas and take them off the bus to send them back to nicarauga. without id papers chico is basically confined to the few small villages between here and the border, about 26 kms away. life moves very slowly here so it could take a very long time to get id papers for him.

los niños are also nicas and without id papers but after talking to xinia, a very kind, caring, sweet teacher here she will have a lawyer friend see about getting id for los niños so by the time they are old enough to need them they will have them.