Living on One Dollar Page #4

Food. [ Speaking

Spanish ] Ik?

Ik. Both:
Ik. Ik. [

Both speaking Spanish ]

Both:
Candle. Candle.

A candl.

Candl. Yeah, I mean, I think

I completely saw myself in a lot

of them. You know, I was, like, eager

to learn, where you're, like, so

excited about building little things outside

of our house, and, you know, that's

what I did for my childhood, and realizing

that it is the situation that they're in

that's holding them back, not

who they are.

Hey. cmo ests? How...

How are you?

How are you? How are you?

"How... are... you?"

[ Rooster crows ] The rbanare growing.

I know.

I'm gonna pay off on my finance loan.

[ Sniffs ]

I'm gonna eat more. [ Chuckles

] It's gonna happen, man.

I can sense it already. [

Chuckles ] Very clumpy, though.

They are really clumpy.

That's bad, right?

Everything about a banana just brings me joy here.

You peel it back. It's naked.

It's a naked fruit. [ Speaks indistinctly

] I just take a bite and savor

it each time like it's the best bite of

banana I will ever take, every single time.

I just make sure, like, the top

of the banana is always even after.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like, your teeth

marks kind of indent it like this.

Yeah. So then you got to play

the game and, like, reverse the

bite. Oh, nice. Yeah. Move it up.

So that it's even, you know?

And it slows down your eating,

too.

As economics majors, Chris and I were really

interested in, how did a person living under a

dollar a day manage their money?

So we were asking people

questions like, "how much money do you make?

What are your expenses?"

Where do you save money? Do you

have any outstanding loans?"

You know, these are really personal questions

for anyone. Hola. Buenas tardes.

Hola. Buenas.

[ Speaking Spanish ] Anthony, in, I

think, the first week we were there, he

was, like, the first grown-up from the community

to come to our house, introduce himself.

You know, he was so excited to

meet us.

[ Speaking Spanish ]

[ Chuckles ] [

Grunts ] [ Chuckles ]

Ah. See? Just 24 and 20 years

old, Anthony and rosa already manage

a household of eight people. Mm.

[ Speaking Spanish ]

[ Baby coos ] [

Chuckles ] Oh.

No? [ Baby crying

] [ Chuckles ]

As a family, they survive on $1.25 each per day

to pay for not only food, but larger costs

of a new baby, their kids' education,

and repairs to their house.

Like, his wife is 20. I'm 20.

And she has three children.

His wife's younger than me, dude.

He's 24.

I look up to her so much. [ Both speaking

Spanish ] They're teaching us how to more

efficiently make fires... cook more substantive food...

And better bargain in town.

Living so close to the edge, these small changes

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