- you saved my life ...
- yours and mine - said Zinabu still shaking.
- and ours too ... - we thought.
Zinabu is the driver of the 4x4 we have rented to cross Ethiopia. Our new traveling companion is a good person. And a great driver. The best. I can not imagine one that could halt in just a moment. A meter later, a second later and the parents of Berghana now we are kissing the hands, we would be cursing. Although we would not need to do so. We alone have lost the trial, torturing us again and again with a question whose answer is so obvious it's scary. Would it have been worth the trip? No, at this price of course not. But does it make sense then that a single meter, a single second can change everything?
Some questions have no answers and answers that are so simple to explain cost. What goes through your head when you think you've just run over and kill a child? Nothing. Do not feel anything. Only empty as if your own soul I had left at the worst time of your life. Nothing was going to be like from that moment. Neither for us nor for Berghana, of course. With just four years, was not even on the hood of the car so we saw him disappear below us, not knowing what had happened. I admit, but the car got faster than ever scared me get there first. Luckily, Zinabu could not stop in time because, when I appeared in front, there was Berghana, naked from the waist down and screaming like never before. The head hit the pavement still hurt. It was the anguish and fear that he escaped through the mouth in the form of howling.
Ethiopia has 70 million inhabitants and more than half are children. Although not all exercise as such, is yes. There are those who dress like children and play like children. Europeans may even go through if not for the chocolate color of their skin. Of Indeed, many of them are European. As we saw in Addis Ababa hotel in the process of adoption. Just a week ago, they were like Berghana, walking around naked and barefoot, oblivious to the whole world. Now again become children, Zara shirts and new shoes. Berghana, however, is one of the others. No One cares not watch. His parents work away from home while their brothers roam the road, whipping with whips rickety cows or human scarecrow making. Be one thing or another, that the fate that awaits Berghana. And seen what could have happened, now seems like a lot.
When we forced him into the car to take to hospital cried like hell but then again not complain even once. Not when we made ourselves an emergency cure, nor to receive the tetanus jab. Caught Zinabu hand and still naked, went from one side to another without saying dispensary mu. And that the place looked like the fourth of the rats, with the floor covered with puddles in his bare feet sinking like the most normal thing in the world. Yes, his face would have broken anyone's heart, any less than their compatriots. He must spend at least the next twenty or more and only one nurse made a Carantoña in her hair. Others, like a shadow. To us, however, more than one advantage to ask for alms. If you ever insult by Ethiopia in Castilian and who know what they learned. They say that in these countries is so child mortality, to five years or more, children do not have too. Seeing as trembling and sobbing Berghana parents when they finally arrived, we could not swear if it is true that they were not too kind to his own son.
- yours and mine - said Zinabu still shaking.
- and ours too ... - we thought.
Zinabu is the driver of the 4x4 we have rented to cross Ethiopia. Our new traveling companion is a good person. And a great driver. The best. I can not imagine one that could halt in just a moment. A meter later, a second later and the parents of Berghana now we are kissing the hands, we would be cursing. Although we would not need to do so. We alone have lost the trial, torturing us again and again with a question whose answer is so obvious it's scary. Would it have been worth the trip? No, at this price of course not. But does it make sense then that a single meter, a single second can change everything?
Some questions have no answers and answers that are so simple to explain cost. What goes through your head when you think you've just run over and kill a child? Nothing. Do not feel anything. Only empty as if your own soul I had left at the worst time of your life. Nothing was going to be like from that moment. Neither for us nor for Berghana, of course. With just four years, was not even on the hood of the car so we saw him disappear below us, not knowing what had happened. I admit, but the car got faster than ever scared me get there first. Luckily, Zinabu could not stop in time because, when I appeared in front, there was Berghana, naked from the waist down and screaming like never before. The head hit the pavement still hurt. It was the anguish and fear that he escaped through the mouth in the form of howling.
Ethiopia has 70 million inhabitants and more than half are children. Although not all exercise as such, is yes. There are those who dress like children and play like children. Europeans may even go through if not for the chocolate color of their skin. Of Indeed, many of them are European. As we saw in Addis Ababa hotel in the process of adoption. Just a week ago, they were like Berghana, walking around naked and barefoot, oblivious to the whole world. Now again become children, Zara shirts and new shoes. Berghana, however, is one of the others. No One cares not watch. His parents work away from home while their brothers roam the road, whipping with whips rickety cows or human scarecrow making. Be one thing or another, that the fate that awaits Berghana. And seen what could have happened, now seems like a lot.
When we forced him into the car to take to hospital cried like hell but then again not complain even once. Not when we made ourselves an emergency cure, nor to receive the tetanus jab. Caught Zinabu hand and still naked, went from one side to another without saying dispensary mu. And that the place looked like the fourth of the rats, with the floor covered with puddles in his bare feet sinking like the most normal thing in the world. Yes, his face would have broken anyone's heart, any less than their compatriots. He must spend at least the next twenty or more and only one nurse made a Carantoña in her hair. Others, like a shadow. To us, however, more than one advantage to ask for alms. If you ever insult by Ethiopia in Castilian and who know what they learned. They say that in these countries is so child mortality, to five years or more, children do not have too. Seeing as trembling and sobbing Berghana parents when they finally arrived, we could not swear if it is true that they were not too kind to his own son.
Back in their village, we gave a prize for having behaved like the best. Some shirts for throwing his broken and a pair of pants to cover their nakedness. We also gave our desert hat and flashlight Coronel Tapioca. With a big smile, long the most beautiful thing we've seen throughout the trip, took everything and put it under his arm like a grownup. And so it went, walking barefoot and naked in the same way that wine. Luckily, we were also able to go where we are. And if we had left, with one in the family.
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