Tuesday 23th October
Hi,A few months ago a lovely young lady from Paraguay called Amelia came to the bar restaurant and asked if we had a job for her and unfortunately we were unable to help her. Amelia had left her three children with here mother in Paraguay and taken a very big step in coming to Spain to look for work, which would give much better pay than she could get in her own country. She ended up working long hours in the restaurant adjacent to ours, but she had a problem. She had free accommodation with friends in Marbella, but the job was in Estepona, so she had to hang around in our bar for 4 hours each afternoon between her two shifts.
Most days Amelia was so tired and so sad because she was missing her children terribly, that she would curl up on one of the bench seats in our bar and fall asleep like a baby. This didn’t cause a problem in our bar, as nobody came inside during the warm season and we were only too pleased to help her in any little way we could, considering her difficult circumstances. However when Olivia went off for a week’s holiday to the Dominican Republic, closing the bar, Amelia was stuck with nowhere to rest between shifts. After talking it over with Olivia we decided to invite her to our apt where she could take her siesta in Victor’s room. That only left one small problem to solve; Amelia’s break from the restaurant commenced each day at 4pm and I would not be back at the apt to let her in until I had returned from Marbella, having done the school run. We hadn’t known Amelia long enough to give her a key to our home, so we had to come up with an idea quickly. Olivia had a brain wave, why not let her wait up on our roof terrace where we had a nice sun-lounger for half an hour each day and then I’d be able to let her in, as soon as I arrived at 4:30pm, so this was what we did and each day Amelia would lay either in the sun or the shade up on the flat roof and then when I got back with Victor she would come in take a shower and then sleep.
Amelia has found it really difficult to be away from her children and has now bought a ticket to return home to South America on the 8th Nov. She has our email address and we hope that she will keep in contact and also send pictures of her family.
I just left our bar where she was giving Olivia a manicure. Typical of Olivia knowing that Amelia is not working at the moment, she had thought of a way of giving her a way to earn a little bit to help tide her over.
Amelia is a trained hairdresser and hopes to go back into her profession as soon as she is back in Paraguay. I know that I will feel a lot of sympathetic joy for her once she is reunited with her three children. Lets all wish her good luck in her endeavour.
Cheers
Graham
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