chico

is such a hard worker. he does all the labour intensive work around here. he's planted a few rows of beans and other things out the back and pineapples in the front. he's gone before 5 am and doesn't return sometimes til late at night. or if it's a school day he returns for lunch then gets ready to go to school. he works on the farms picking or planting fruit and or vegetables fridays and saturdays. he goes to school at night by himself because he hasn't had previous education and would be so far behind the other kids. this family has taken him in but they don't have the means to pay for his education so this 16 year old boy walks 10 km to school every day at 3, works in the fields to put himself through school. he told me he dreamt that he was a pastor and was preaching in church. he plays sweet music on the keyboard but it doesn't work anymore.