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This morning at Beerseba, I was just about to head home after teaching some classes when one of our students was hit by a truck. Hugo, the little guy at the bottom right hand of this photo, was playing with his friends where he wasn’t supposed to be playing and an older man in a red pick-up truck drove right over his right leg, snapping the bones. I didn’t have a clue what happened when it did happen. I was just a few feet away and Walter, the vice-principal, ran over. I went into the school, not having a clue.<\/p>\n
When I came out again, I saw Hugo on one leg being supported by his teacher. He was carried into his classroom and I sat with him for a little while. His friends were out telling every passing stranger and the neighbours what had happened. Hugo just cried. I had some tylenol and water brought for him and checked out his leg – I could see it was a clean break. I asked his classmates to come around him and pray for him – and pray they did. Three of them burst into tears after they started praying. Hugo is 8 years old (I think). I offered to drive him to Coban hospital, but it was decided that an ambulance would get him quicker attention once he arrived at the hospital. While we waited for the ambulance (los bomberos), Hugo lay in his teacher’s arms, weeping. His uncle, Gualberto, (a grade 10 student) went along with his mother to translate from Poqomch\u00ed to Spanish and vice-versa.<\/p>\n
The team that was here from Stony Plain, AB, visited Hugo a couple times. His sponsors, Bob and Grace, fell in love with the little guy. Actually, everyone who meets Hugo falls in love with him. He’s got such a great smile.<\/p>\n
Hugo is home again. He has a cast and some pain-killers.<\/p>\n
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A woman from this Stony Plain team twisted her ankles very badly on a visit to Xi’ixim last week. Both of her feet swelled up and she was on crutches for most of her 14 days in Guatemala. It turns out that her ankles, both of them, were in fact broken the entire time. Vange is a trooper! She actually didn’t miss out of too much while she was here, she had us carry her or she hobbled along or she took a tuk-tuk (3-wheeled taxi) in Antigua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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