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<\/a><\/p>\nPaquito, a carpenter by trade, is currently the baranggay captain of the area we live in.\u00a0 Other villagers have commented to us that he is smarter than them because he\u2019s not just a corn farmer like the rest of them.\u00a0 That\u2019s why he\u2019s the baranggay captain right now.\u00a0 Being a carpenter, he and I have a little bit in common.\u00a0 (Some look at our families and say we\u2019ve got something else in common too!)<\/p>\n
Here are their children:<\/p>\n
Mildred, who is 24, is married and recently had her first child.\u00a0 Like her dad, she is very quiet and reserved.\u00a0 She has only recently been coming around more to visit with Shannon and the kids.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Crynalyn, who is 22, is also married, and has a 2 year old son.\u00a0 Unlike her older sister, she has made every effort to be around us and figure out who we are since we first began staying in the village.\u00a0 Admittedly it gets a little tiring at times!<\/p>\n<\/a>Geward is 18 and spends most of his time away at school.\u00a0 This picture is from the only time I have actually met him in the village.\u00a0 Paquito and Maribel have been able to send all of their older children out to high school, which is an expensive thing for them to do in remote areas such as this.<\/p>\n<\/a>Novilyn is 14, and currently attending the same high school as her older brother in the town we were living in, about 30 km from the village.\u00a0 Within the next couple of years, she will be of marrying age, if she returns to the village to stay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a>Fevilyn, who is 13, also attends high school with her sister.\u00a0 They generally come back to the village each weekend, but she in particular much prefers to live out of the tribe.<\/p>\n<\/a>Ogelon is the same age as our son, Kyle who is 9, and they didn\u2019t take long becoming friends when Kyle first went to the village.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a>Aubrey is about 5 years old.\u00a0 We see her, along with a crowd of other 3 to 5 year olds pass by Christina\u2019s house every day during the week as they go to and from preschool.\u00a0 Even in the tribe, kids start their education at a very young age.<\/p>\n<\/a>Aldren is 3, and we joke about him being the screamer of the family.\u00a0 Pretty much every day, at least once, he can be heard throughout the village as he wails loudly over something he\u2019s not happy about.\u00a0 Beyond that he\u2019s really a nice little boy!<\/p>\n