"Call Me Joey"

We made a new friend on this trip. On Tuesday when we went out to the School of Champions, the compound where children that live in the neighborhood outside of the dump come to learn Mathamatics, Computers and English. We arrived early on this day so we sat on the tail gate of the truck we were loaned to wait for the others to arrive with the key.

While we were sitting there one of the children that was waiting came up to us and wanted to talk. Our spanish isn't very good and he is just learning English so you would have thought that the discussion would have been a short one. Oh, but not for Jose. He told us his name was Jose, but that in English it was Joey. He wanted us to call him Joey. We asked about his brothers and sisters, we talked about sports he even talked about golf and hockey with us. He talked and talked and even though we didn't understand most of what he said it didn't matter to him. All that mattered is that we listened. He was so excited to tell us what was going on in his world, he was animated and expressive and both Kyle and I totally enjoyed our conversation with Joey.

So Joey made our day and hopefully we made his just a little brighter as well.