¡Muy frío, Dah-veed!

Everyday at the shelter, 2012

¡Muy frío, Dah-veed!
or, David, it is freezing in this place, do something about it or let us go outside where it is tolerable
or, in our abundance we have become a tad spoiled...


During the day the temperature inside the shelter (gymnasium) hovered around eighty degrees, not bad compared to the scalding hot temps outside in deep south Texas. It was easy to tell the difference between kids from Central America and the people from North America (besides the obvious age difference). Inside the gym every day, the Central America kids would be freezing - their arms tucked inside of their t-shirts trying to maintain body temp. The North Americans would be walking around fanning themselves with clipboards, papers, books - whatever was available in effort to keep from spontaneously combusting.

Another difference was in the cafeteria...the NA's would pick around on the food tray eating half or less of the food on the tray, then throwing the rest in the trash can. Conversely, the CA's would devour everything on their tray - the coleslaw, the broccoli, the green beans, the mystery meat - everything. One kid even asked why we threw so much away. I told him what I tell everyone else:

"Dude, you gotta go check out this documentary on Netflix!"

(I didn't really say that, probably said something like, ¿Quién sabe? But since we are on the subject, you should go check out this documentary.)