This is Carlos. He is 13 years old, but he looks a lot younger. He is a tricky little fellow. He lives in Zorca, one of the communities where we have installed filters. He loves the Agua Pura truck and loves to help us whenever we are in town and he is out of school. He comes straight to wherever we are without even changing his school uniform and taking off his shoes. The first day I went to his community to install he came with me to every house to help me install. He picked things up very quickly and loved to help carry things. He also comes along in the truck to tell us where people live. One tricky thing about installing filters is that it is hard to find where people live and who has filters because home addresses haven’t quite caught on. Of course within the community everybody knows where everybody lives and who has filters. However, detailed directions are hard to come by. Usually people live up there or down there and that’s about as specific as it gets. So…kids are our saviors because they always want to help. Carlos is also good for getting us food. He bluntly tells his mom that we are hungry and she prepares some great rice, beans and tortillas for us. We also usually go home with a few stalks of cane from the field.
Although Carlos is extremely helpful and bright he is also a little tricky. One time he decided he would hop in the back seat of the truck as we were leaving his community and not say anything for the entire ride. About 30 minutes into the trip out we realized he was sitting quietly in the back seat and had to turn around and drive him all the way home. He is also a little curious about shinny things. The last time we visited his community I noticed my cell phone was missing once I got home. I wondered if I had left it in the truck or in the community and later confirmed that Carlos had “borrowed” it without asking. Chris & Adan went back to the community the next day to get my phone for me and low and behold Carlos wasn’t home. They had to drive another 30 minutes to a nearby town to find him and eventually got my phone back.
Although Carlos is extremely helpful and bright he is also a little tricky. One time he decided he would hop in the back seat of the truck as we were leaving his community and not say anything for the entire ride. About 30 minutes into the trip out we realized he was sitting quietly in the back seat and had to turn around and drive him all the way home. He is also a little curious about shinny things. The last time we visited his community I noticed my cell phone was missing once I got home. I wondered if I had left it in the truck or in the community and later confirmed that Carlos had “borrowed” it without asking. Chris & Adan went back to the community the next day to get my phone for me and low and behold Carlos wasn’t home. They had to drive another 30 minutes to a nearby town to find him and eventually got my phone back.
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Did he use the cell phone to make any calls? Or was he just wanting to hold it to be "cool"?
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