Christmas in Tamba was very satisfying, if lacking in the traditional surrounded-by-wrapping-paper-carnage, snoozing-on-the-couch-watching-football, post-fourth-helping-of-dinner American holiday afterglow.
Josh and Cory and I hit the market in the morning to get dinner ingredients, snoozed and read during the day, and then cooked in the afternoon with a small group—we had a potluck dinner, with chili, stuffing, [...]
Christmas haiku:
my stomach gurgles
but i sat here for two hours
happy gifts for you!
Mornings spent picking cotton in the past week and a half: 3
Hours that massive brown clouds of locusts were visible in the skies over my village a few days ago: 2
Snakes I’ve seen: 2
Snakes that were subsequently beaten to death and then decapitated by villagers: 1
Toddlers who burst into tears when I so much as [...]
Swear-in pics are up!
Pre-Merry Christmas :)
[BING] Picked cotton for about two and a half hours.
[BING] Continued to jog every morning as the sun came up.
[BING] Greeted all the village families on my own.
[BING] Tried to milk cows. Failed.
[BING] Paid a social visit to the family next to mine, ate really good food with them, and even discussed previous and future [...]
After spending a great night in Tamba (hamburgers and Trivial Pursuit!) with a smattering of other PCVs, I decided to explore another cybercafe, closer to the regional house. This one has the same low price of 350 cfa/hour, is closer, and what’s more important has a Windows interface, which means next time I come through [...]
Here’s what life is like at Two Weeks In-Village:
My alarm goes off at 6am. Sometimes I’ve already been awaken a few times by roosters crowing or sheep yelling or, occasionally, mice squealing in the thatched roof above my head. I get up early because morning is a valuable time—the village is (relatively) quiet, the air [...]