The four
young sons of my homestay hosts Rosa and Felipe have largely left me to my own
devices during my first week in San Pedro, except when the youngest (Jose – 4)
kindly escorted me to the local shop on Friday whilst I was still in a weakened
post-vomitus state, to make sure I bought him a biscuit.
This all
changed abruptly yesterday when Juan (7) discovered I can draw funny pictures.
I am now the resident cartoonist for Juan, Jose and their elder brothers Beto
(9) and Augustin (11), and have spent a large part of my weekend taking
requests to draw cartoon characters.
I have yet
to have either of their much older (and both breastfeeding) sisters knock on my
bedroom door to ask if I can draw them a Garfield, but perhaps this will change
in the coming days as news of the extranjeros mediocre artistic talents
spreads.
