Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Michelet Boursiquot, elementary school custodian.
“All my life I deal with kids. I’m the oldest of 20 kids—17 sisters, two brothers—and I had to take care of them. Haiti, that’s where I’m from. I was 20 when I came to the U.S. I came here in February, it was snowing like crazy. The first time I see that stuff, I start crying. I wanted to go back home. I read about snow in National Geographic, but I never knew it was like that. But I get adjusted.
