Party=food, karaoke, and a pinch of Richard...

The world is a better place at Assumption thanks to Richard David, physics adn accounting teacher, fillipino master, father of two adorable children... Rafael and Joshua Michael.

His wife's name is Esmeralda, but they call her Esmi. She's about 4 feet tall, but a whirlwind all herself.

Richard, like most of the high school staff at Assumption will be leaving at the end fo the year. See... Assumption who raises its almost $1,000 tuition every year, and has just completed a 6 or 7 year long $1,000,000 building project, has not raised its teachers salary for a long long time. Richard makes 40 bucks a day. $4.50 an hour. His babysitter evryday costs 20.
hmmm.... on the other hand, everyone that works at the public schools gets paid lamost 3 times as much. He has two kids now. he can't afford to stick around ad majorum dei glorium.
he's not a volunteer. this is his life.

It sucks because all the people on this island don't really want to be here. They just want to go to America. That's all. Sometimes I wish they closed the island, shipped everyone to california, dropped them off and said here... figure it out. I think most people would. Would their lives be much better than here? no, but at least they wouldn't have this indefinate struggle for americanhood looming over them forever.

On the other hand, knowing the united states. Becuase he'd liek to be a nurse, but what are his chances in the states of that? Maybe everyone is really far far far far far better off here, where Richard can be a teacher, a good teacher, and not have to clean toilets, with his hands, in some dive bar while getting treated like an animal by self important white trash.

Life is life though. It has a course. Who knows what will happen.