Day in the life - by Brenda

Today we went to see a family who make corn tortillas and then sells them to make money for their family. This lady and her family work incredibly hard each day. They have to cook the corn, they rinse it to remove the yellow color, put the corn in buckets so they can take it down the road to have it ground. Everyone seems to help and support each other. This lady paid the other lady to grind her corn and then others pay her for her corn tortillas. On the way back she had to stop a few times as she seemed to have a sore back. When we arrived back at her home she should us how to make the tortillas. She was amazing how she could make perfectly round tortillas. Ours were not so pretty. She repeats this entire process a few times each day. On average she makes about 1200 tortillas each day. Her children help her when they are not in school.

I can't even begin to appreciate how hard they work here as there is so much we have that is done for us or we just go to the store and buy what we need. Their homes are so much smaller. From today and the social worker visit the other day I have learned how much family means to people here and how they try to help each other out. This is what is seems to be important to them instead of the material items.

Brenda