I hope that everyone is doing well at home, staying healthy
and happy.
Last weekend we had the regional meeting. It was nice to meet some other volunteers
from my region and to reunite with others that I had went to training
with. We had the meeting at classy
burger then changed and had a little Halloween party at Jessica’s house. The Kumba cluster dressed up as the cast form
Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia specifically the episode where they play flip
cup. So we all got t-shirts printed like
the ones on the show, I got a blonde wig, and Brian (who was Frank) shaved his
head in a horse shoes).
In more horrifying news; I had an incident with a latrine
that I’m positive will scar me for life.
We went to this bar for dinner; the bar doesn’t have any toilets
(typical) it just has latrines. On the
regular men just pee any where they want and most of the time at this bar particularly,
men are too lazy to enter into the latrine to pee so they just stand in the
open doorway to relieve themselves. Well
for all the females that makes the latrines 1. Disgusting since we have to walk
thru your pee 2. Slippery …. Enough said.
From now on I’m walking down the road to the gas station even if the
girls who work there are rude and hate it when we use their bathrooms (even
though they are public toilets). Funny
how different things are here, the cleanest toilet I think I’ve been to is at
the gas station.
On to a more dinner appropriate topic, the weather. I’m sure that you have noticed from my
pictures that it has been hot. It has
pretty consistently been hot. If you
walk anywhere when the sun is up you will sweat. Other times it’s muggy and you still
sweat. The only time that you get a
break is when it rains, then the temperature drops and it usually down pours. Since rainy season is coming to an end down
pours don’t happen every day anymore but they happen every other day or every
three days and it rains, thunders, and lightening hard enough to take down telephone poles, cut power, internet,
and phone network. Yet, since rainy
season is ending that also means that when it doesn’t rain it’s even hotter to
the point even in the shade just sitting can make you sweat. Other pcv’s have warned me it will only going
to get worse. Time to invest in a fan.
Great news; Ryan is officially transferring to Kumba!! YAY
Elections are tonight so the Kumba cluster is going to
Jessica’s house since she is the only one with a TV. We’re going to make a nice little dinner and
a lot of coffee. The pre coverage on CNN
should start about 10pm our time and we should find out who wins somewhere
between 3-5am. So it’s going to be a
long night.
