25 other things that being a PCV is also about:
1) Finding
Weird Bugs
OK, not a bug, but adorable.
2) Food
(Cooking It, Eating It, Craving It, Anything At All To Do With Food)
Jackfruit, which Peace Corps legend says is the food that Juicy Fruit based its flavor on.
Making homemade cinnamon buns!
A cooking competition, Top Chef style, during one of our trainings.
Homemade potato gnocchi - when you have regular access to only four different vegetables, you start to get creative.
Street meat!
My ongoing list.
3) The
Most Bureaucracy Ever, Everywhere
A half hour of my last three hour-long meeting involved listening to the minutes from the previous four hour-long meeting. Also, if you don’t write down the agenda that the chairperson announces, you get the evil eye.
A half hour of my last three hour-long meeting involved listening to the minutes from the previous four hour-long meeting. Also, if you don’t write down the agenda that the chairperson announces, you get the evil eye.
4) Writing
The journals I've completed since in-country.
5) Being McGuyver
Setting up our gas stove top.
We make our own games!
Gambling chips made out of tri-colored pasta.
Five people, all their worldly possessions, and one car.
DIY stitches removal!
6) Growing
Things (Except Basil)
Avocados from our backyard.
7) Peace
Corps Trainings
I feel like this is a good range of emotions often found at trainings...
8) Hiding
in Your House
Privacy can be hard to come by when you live in a communal society...and when you live where you work.
Privacy can be hard to come by when you live in a communal society...and when you live where you work.
9) Making
Connections
10) Care Packages!
11) Touching
(PCVs Get Lonely, Y’All)
12) Reading
Books read in Peace Corps so far - 75.
13) Camps!
14) Watching TV
15) Cleaning Up
Dead Things and Gecko Poop
'Nough said.
'Nough said.
16) Language
Learning
17) Cups of Tea
(With More Sugar Than You Thought Possible)
18) Sitting in
Vehicles
See Travel in Uganda. After awhile, you start to look forward to the time to think. You also come to realize that your concept of personal space has completely been eradicated. In fact, it’s kind of nice on cold days.
See Travel in Uganda. After awhile, you start to look forward to the time to think. You also come to realize that your concept of personal space has completely been eradicated. In fact, it’s kind of nice on cold days.
19) Being
Confused
This is what my candy came wrapped in...
An apple a day...because an orange a day. I was tempted to give him credit.
Yep. Cow waiting to use our latrine, apparently.
20) Not Letting Other People Steal Your Camera
21) Triumph
22) Defeat (Also Accompanied by Mockery)
23) Philosophizing
Salt mining at Katwe lake.
25) Always
remembering…
