After finishing 12 weeks of training in Epau and Pele, we've become accustomed to the no-frills lifestyle. Of course, I came into this experience expecting such. However, if you were to have told me that I (or my fellow trainees) would experience any of the following while living here, I would have cringed or laughed.
But being here, seeing/hearing/feeling these things every day, it's no big deal. It's the new normal.
- Down time in class is spent performing lice checks on friends:
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| group lice checks |
- This conversation…
Santi: “Is she running into the sea?”
Charlie: “Yeah, that’s my host sister. She does that sometimes.”
- Covering open wounds so flies don’t infect them
- Sleeping from 7pm-6am (during any and all dark hours)
- While unloading our luggage from a cargo van, “Wait, who brought a live chicken?” “One of the language trainers.”
- You splurge to buy the month's supply of breakfast crackers in a plastic tub so you can have extra food storage containers to prevent rats from eating everything.
- When your foot gets infected and you need to walk a mile to class so the immediate thought is, "wheelbarrow:"
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| the aelan wheelchair |
More to come in future posts.
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