We were sad to leave refugio and our new friends. Pio sent us off with a small loquat tree. Loquats are a tradition for AMS field trips. Always when our trips arrive, the loquats are ripe. Four or five years ago, he sent a loquat home with our school, and it is growing well. now we will have two. What if one day, they bloom and make loquats in our dining room.
In addition to the loquat, Pio gave us a lemongrass plant from his home village in Peru, and five bags of young corn shoots, natural corn whose ancestors came from Cuba. Everyone was getting good at spanish, even the students who were having a hard time in classes. By the time we left, most of the kids were asking questions to the refugees in spanish and trying to think of reasons to talk to them. So awesome.
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