Living on One Dollar Page #3

[ Girl giggling ]

[ Machete chopping ]

This is only my second week actually in pea

blanca, and I feel like we're already showing

signs of being worn down and dejected.

We all have these pulgas.

We all kind of got destroyed on our dirt floors.

[ Speaking Spanish ]

[ Camera shutter clicking ]

And, you know, that was [Chuckles] that was

the point where I was like, "I want to go"

home. Like, I need

to get out of here.

"Why am I doing this?" And we were eating

better than a lot of the people in the

community.

Jose enrico just brought us a gift.

He wrote us a letter.

[ Speaking Spanish ] s?

Aw, gracias, Jose.

S.

[ Speaking Spanish ]

[ Speaking Spanish ]

[ Indistinct shouting ] Oh.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

[ Speaking Spanish ]

[ Speaking Spanish ] [

Children giggling ] Oh.

Yay! Okay. [

Speaking Spanish ]

[ Speaking Spanish ] S.

[ Speaking Spanish ]

[ Chuckles ] [ Indistinct

talking in Spanish ]

[ School bell rings ] [ Children shouting

excitedly ] That was absolutely nuts.

Did you see that madness? That was 315 kids

playing with like 6 different balls at the

same time. And I don't know.

What's up, Carlos?

And I don't how many games and, like,

snacks were distributed, but that was nuts.

That was nuts. How fun. Yeah. How fun.

[ Both speaking Spanish ]

We really didn't know who he was, initially,

that he was kind of just the kid that was

always around. And he was just,

like, so eager to learn.

[ Speaking Spanish ] How...

Are you?

Pssh! Hi. It turns

out chino's family

couldn't afford the $25 cost of books and supplies

for school. They had a family of eight

that lived in a single room. They no longer had

electricity, because they couldn't pay for

it. You know, his father never knew

when he was gonna work or not,

'cause he worked as a day laborer.

And chino, who is 12, had to

work in the fields.

We'd see him coming, walking up the Mountain

with this thing wrapped around his head and,

like, a huge bundle of, like, logs and

sticks behind him. At one point, Chris asked

chino, like, you know, "if you could

do anything, what would you be?"

And chino's response was, you know, "I'm gonna

be a farmer." And Chris was like, "no, like,

what would you be if you could be

anything? " And, I mean, he was like, " I'd

be a pro soccer player." But at 12 years

old, chino had accepted the fate that he was

gonna be a farmer.

[ Speaking native language ]

Chino, like most of the people here,

speaks Kaqchikel and only a few words of

Spanish. [ Speaking Spanish

] [ Speaking Spanish ]

[ Speaking indistinctly ] Aguacate.

Aguacate.

O? En ingls, eavocado.

Avoca-- avocado.

S. Avocado.

Both:
Avocado.

[ Speaking Spanish ]

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