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Victor has found only a couple of things about Rappahannock that he’s not enchanted with. When he first arrived at the Helmer’s, he was overjoyed to find a pool in the back yard where he could swim everyday. “But the water is too cold!” he wailed.
“It was 72 degrees. That’s warm," Wendy corrected.
“It was ice,’’ argued Victor.
“No, it was comfortable!” his adopted sister insisted in one of those back and forth exchanges so typical of sibling relationships.
“He called his mother and told her it was freezing here and the thermometer read 70 degrees,” said Pat, shaking her head over the prospect of their visitor, facing a Rappahannock winter after the Philippine's tropical climate and lows of 50 degrees.
Beside the weather, the fast pace of life in America frustrated Victor, according to his foster mother. “I talk fast, the kids talk fast, we’re always in a rush to be on time. He just wasn’t used to it,” Pat explained.
"He misses the siestas. He’s always sleeping,” confided Wendy.
“Yea, being on time is hard. Back in the Philippines, if you’re just 30 minutes or an hour late for a party, you’d be 9 starl” Victor concluded.
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