First Time I Ever…
Going into the second half of the project (!!!), I thought I’d highlight the things I’ve done for the first time ever:
- Wield a cutlass
- Picked my own coconut
- Teach a classroom
- Live with other people not family
- Volunteer overseas
- Camp next to a river
- Sleep in a hammock
- Do laundry on top of a septic tank
- Sleep on a bunk bed with a mosquito net
- Clap roti
- Watch the delivery of donations from an NGO
- Speak with a drunk guy at 2 in the afternoon
- Live with giant spiders
- Ate off a fish head
- Dry off wet baby chicks
- Walk in the rain while in a rainforest
- Swim in a ditch
- Use a pipe as a waterslide
- Watch the death of a chicken
- Play with children
- Deal with chiggers
- Walk in puddles while barefoot
- Attend a wake and a funeral
- Taste bush alcohol (cassava wine)
- Shampoo and bathe in a black water creek
- Fetch water to flush toilet
- See fireflies
- Watch goats fight right outside my window
- See a horse on a beach
- See dead dogs on a beach
- Clean a high school
- Have a firecracker go off nearly in my ear
- Integrate into a foreign community
- Take malaria pills
- Sleep outside during a rainstorm
- Attempt to teach someone to read
- Deliberately avoid cops
- Judge a high school class decorating contest
- Took photo of something dead
- Attend a church service to bless a school to remove demonic influences
- Have men try to talk to me while I bathe
- Have my hand shook for Valentine’s Day
- Speak loudly for so many days in a row
- Speeched off two people in as many weeks
- Wade in a river and almost lose a slipper
- Live life with no electricity except for 4-5 hours a night (sometimes none, though)
Not too shabby a list, eh. Now, here’s hoping the second half of this project will bring the same amount of new experieces!
This is where we have a bath once a week (in addition to bucket showers)
