Tashirat Kids Interviews – November 2011

We interviewed a bunch of the kids recently. Their answers were really adorable. Here are some highlights. Enjoy!

What do you want to be when you are big?

Dovin (Oscarito) – Eat cheese.

Abundio – I drive machine (he means a big bulldozer).

Tanisha (Lupita) – I help Elbia (our cook) and work hard to make cookies and EVERYTHING.

Alexan – Be a fish, to swim in the water… and that’s it.

Joli – A fish, a really big one… and I will eat the little fish! Or….a ball so I can play all the time.

Stephanie – I’M ALREADY BIG! (Cracks herself up and can’t stop laughing.)

Isabel – A chicken… Take care of chickens.

Ani – A princess because I’ve never been one in my whole life!

Do you want to get married when you grow up?

Abundio – Ay, no! (Looks at me with absolute disgust, like he is so offended I could ask such a thing!)

Cara (Angie)- No,… I don’t like that.

Stephanie – With Dovin!

Isabel – Yes and I’ll wear a big dress!

Why not Abundio?

 Because no! Just want machine (bulldozer) and music!

What do you want your husband or wife to be like?

Tanya – Nice, sweet, handsome and STRONG. Also I would like him to be a hairdresser so he can do my hair!

 Mikael (Atair) – Blonde and she will wear high heels and dresses.

Julio – I want her to learn to express and say what she feels.

 Alexan – Just like my Poppy. (He is referring to his Tashirat dad, Jonathan.)

How do you want your wife to be like your Poppy?

He loves me so much and takes care of me.

Do you want to have children?

Dovin (Oscarito) – Yes, lots and lots, because I want to. Girls because I like them. Boys no because I don’t like them so much.

Abundio – Yes. Wife no! Just a few, I like kids… but just a few.

Isabel – Yes, lots. I’ll give them kisses so they know I love them.

Josh – Yes but just 2 though because you have to feed them.

Ani – No, they are naughty! Or maybe just one daughter because girls aren’t so naughty and when she is big she can help me clean the house.

Oscar – Yes, a boy and girl would be good. That way they would remind me of my brother and my sister when we don’t live together anymore and everyone is in their own lives.

Tanya – Yes, but just two though because they can be a lot of trouble.

What do you want your life to be like when you grow up?

Dovin (Oscarito) – Music, house, tons of Band-Aids for my kids’ boo boos. Lots of little dogs, but just the ones that stay little forever.

Stephanie – Have babies and babies and babies and children and babies.

Isabel – I’ll touch trees, I’ll go up stairs (we have a few really steeps stairs that the kids aren’t allowed to go up) and that’s it. I want to go upstairs!

Josh – I want to be rich so I can help people that don’t have food, I want to be nice and fix cars for people. Oh and I want to study eagles so I can know how they fly with such skinny wings, and I’ll make big toys for kids like cars and stuff and help people. Oh yeah and I want lions.

Sami – Work, go to concerts, build a house and live in Italy. It’s a nice place.

Ani – Help people like abuelos and abuelitos, cut flowers, go to school, learn letters and sumas.

Aria – I’ll go to school and learn to ride horses and how to read in my head without making sound. My house will be in Tashirat and I’ll help with the kids.

What is your biggest wish?

Dovin (Oscarito) and Alexan – A house!

Tanisha (Lupita) – Play with big balloons, lots!… and have magic.

Cara (Angie) – To buy a motorcycle and a dog. I’ll drive my motorcycle and my dog will run with it.

Joli – A fish probably.

Stephanie – A bracelet and a pocketbook.

Isabel – Everyone in the whole world love me… lots.

Mikael (Atair) – That I will always see everyone in Tashirat all the time when I’m big.

Ani – A planet that is close to us and that we can look at with those things you put on your eyes like this (she make binoculars with her hands)… and that´s it!

If you could have a wish come true for someone else what would you wish and for who?

 Abundio – Roses my friends.

Mikael (Atair) – That everyone is nice in the world and that everything everyone wants falls out of the sky.

Misha (Maria) – I would wish that Tashirat is always here and that everyone is happy the way we are. Give food to the homeless people and give them a home so they don’t live outside.

Ani – Stuffed animals for everyone… (she started listing all the adults in Tashirat, I thinks she feels bad for them because they don’t have stuffed animals).

Josh – Gold houses for everyone and pretty lamps… and that I can do some of my Mom’s work so I can give my Mom a break. (He is referring to his Tashirat mom.)

Aria – That everyone is happy and that the world is beautiful with a lot more animals and the people can’t kill the animals because there are rules.

What is the funniest thing that has ever happened to you?

Dovin (Oscarito)- Homework.

What is your favorite song or music?

Stephanie – Some birds sing. I like their song.

Mikael (Atair) – Michael Jackson. (He LOVES Michael Jackson and often says how much he misses him so much even though he didn’t “discover” MJ until after his death. He pronounces his name “my-cool-jack-shawn” no matter how many times we practice!)

What is your favorite part of the day?

Cara (Angie) – Night time because I have time to snore.

Tanisha (Lupita) – Cold, sunny and flowers growing and there are oceans. (I don’t know what she thought I was asking but I thought this was cute and she said it so dreamily.)

What is your favorite animal?

Tanisha (Lupita) – Unicorns, pegasus, dinosaurs with wings (dragons), cars that fly, elephants, zebras… and that’s it!

Joli – Fish… fish, sharks and… fish.

Isabel – Cows, elephants, chickens, and rain.

Liana – Elephants because they are funny and if you are hot they can wet you.

If you could travel anywhere in the world where would you go?

Tanisha (Lupita) – The circus.

Joli – To be in a tree.

Stephanie – To see monkeys with my children.

Sami – Brazil. It’s big and I like their flag.

If you could change one thing in the world what would it be?

That everyone is nice and that they don’t cut trees, just make beds from metal or cotton or something so don’t need wood.

What kind of mischief do you get into at home?

Tanisha (Lupita) – (Big naughty grin)I play with the spray bottle and get Alexan (her brother) wet. Sometimes I get up when it’s still dark and I get the kids up to play but then I get in trouble because I’m supposed to be sleeping.

Alexan – Make ugly faces at the kids! I wet Tanisha’s (his sister’s) face with the spray bottle (he breaks into hysterics just thinking about it). Oh, and I put stickers in the books I got from the library (huge naughty grin).

Stephanie – I’m good! I sweep… and mop!

You don’t do anything naughtyStephanie?

Mmmmm, no.

What are you learning in school?

Dovin (Oscarito) – (He started singing…) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday…

Joli – To sing… and think.

Stephanie – Seaweed!

What ingredients did God use to make you?

Joli – (Long time thinking)… Warm stuff.

Stephanie – Braids and cheeks.

Mikael (Atair) – A brain, a lot of bones and magic.

Isabel – Glass! (She thinks that is hysterical and can’t stop laughing.)

Ani – Bananas

Liana – Fairy dust.

Tanya – Sugar, chocolate and vanilla!

What is your best memory?

Mikael (Atair) – Coming to Tashirat, because everyone took care of me.

Ani – I got here y ya!… Oh and we got flowers in my house from a wedding!

Julio – When I was 10 and we went to do go-carts for my birthday. It was the first time I ever drove and I loved it.

Sami – When I was naughty when I was little!

What is your funniest memory?

Julio – When everyone in my house was chasing each other and we caught Josh and put honey in his face!

What would you like people to know about you?

Josh – I am the best cook in the world… (sings) din, din, din, diiiiin!!!

Liana – I’m happy.

Tanya – I’m funny!

Sami – I’m so big now.

 

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