"Invisible Guestworkers"

Office boys. Or office girls if you're in a girl's school like Danica's. These are low paid expats (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Filipino) Many have at least a working vocabulary of 3-4 languages. Many go to work cleaning houses after they pull their day job. At my school Gooti is Indian and Abdulhalam is from Bangladesh. They are invisible to people unless they are needed to perform a service. When I arrived, I noticed there was no daily greeting to them as is the case for everyone else and the daily greeting is mandatory! I pretend I just don't know any better and greet them the same way I do the rest. A Filipino girl at Danica's school is about 28, both parents dead, lives in a small, one-room with seven others, a light bulb and water faucet. That's it. She sends money home for her younger siblings. 25,000 people each month come to the country ... that's Libertyville's population. If this life is better what are they leaving at home?