It is a little 4 Pm yesterday and I am happily chowing down on lunch with includes clams fresh out of the sand with rice and beans. My moms, Paola and Marinela, said they would be back around 1:30 for lunch, but this is Chiloe and they didn’t return until after 3. To my left is Alex, the German man living in my foyer, and Marinela; Paola left to walk the kids home from school. An excited yell from outside breaks the silence of us hungrily eating. We glance at each other to acknowledge that the kids have arrived. About a minute or so later Amarai, 6, comes sprinting into the house with a lollipop dangling from her mouth. She says that she behaved well in school today with a very rare case for this girl. She is soon followed by her twin brother, Emilio, who gazes at the jug of juice on the table. He runs up to the table and pours himself a glass. Aurora, 6, and Martina, 10, are the last to stroll in with Paola.
And now the madness begins…
Once Amarai leaves the room, it doesn’t take long for her siblings to rat on her. She sold all of the food that her mom sent with her to school for 100 pesos, which is the equivalent of 20 cents, so she could buy a lollipop. Paola is annoyed considering all the food probably cost about 3 dollars in reality. When she goes to scold Amarai, Amarai lies and said she didn’t sell the food. She is sent into time out crying. Meanwhile, Marinela takes the juice from Emilio and asks him to go take of his uniform. He refuses. After shouting `No, no, no…`in Marinela`s face, he is also sent into time out crying. Simultaneously Aurora enters the living half-naked. She has tried to take the blouse of her school uniform off by pulling it over her head. Her hands and head are now stuck inside the shirt when she runs into a chair and falls. She is now crying. While the moms are dealing with 3 crying children, Martina tries to fill a glass with juice from the large, glass jug. It slips and crashes to the ground next to me. Juice and glass covers not only the floor, but also the table and me. Her eyes grow wide and she runs to the kitchen to grab a towel. Alex and I gaze at each other. This is the best form of birth control anyone can have.
And all this happens within a timeframe of 5 minutes.
The little munchkins (the three 6 yr olds) playing with the neighbor`s motorcycle
Martina (purple) on her first group date I took her on
Roughing housing with Marinela
The main house where I spend most of time
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