The ´lads´
Julio (L) and Jarol (R) are the lad contingent in our group. Both were very poorly and bedbound when I arrived, but both have been through the wheelchair stage and now ´drive´ zimmers! I can remember Jarol crying his eyes out when they first started making him walk. The pair of them are a bit of a handful, but loads of fun, always trying to ram their zimmers into each other and to get away with getting back into the wheelchairs. They faithfully attend my English lessons and parrot what they hear, it´s very amusing!
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