So I realized there were a few awesome things I forgot to mention:
1) Yesterday there was a kid walking down the side of the road was using a chunk of grass to try to entice a goat to follow him. The goat kept getting distracted and he kept obnoxiously forcing the grass in front of the goats face. It was very amusing.
2) All of the kids here like to sniff you and/or lick you when they are holding your hand. Also, when we were at the orphanage the kids were pulling my arm hairs and laughing at them.
3) EVERYONE wants your watch.
4)Yesterday the teaching staff was going on a trip to check out a new place for the students to potentially visit. Three of them convinced the driver to leave without the rest of them. As they backed out of the parking space a visiting teacher walked up to the car and waved at them to stop and let him in. No one saw him though and they drove away. As he walked by I said "why aren't you going with them?" He said "I am!" and started running to catch them at the gate. Another visiting staff member was trying to get lunch and the kitchen was slow so she had to have someone run ahead to stop the car so that they didn't leave her.
5)When I first got to Africa I pitied people here because they are mostly very poor and live very simply. The more time I spend here though the more I respect, and even envy in some cases, the lifestyle here. People are much happier overall and don't seem to mind all of the amenities that they are missing. It has really made me question what America as a society values.
6) We have a stray cat that hangs around camp (well actually 3 but one main one). It is friendly to the students for the most part but doesn't like the staff. One day it was in the dining hall during lunch and so one of the staff members picked it up by its scruff, carried it out of the hall and across the lawn and threw it over the fence. It was back by dinner. Haha. This morning when I got up it was leaping at the clothes pins on our line in front of our banda and chasing its tail :]
I think seeing how other people live can really make you evaluate your own life and maybe change your mind about who you want to be as a person. I admire your thoughtfulness about all these new situations you are observing and experiencing. - - - That sounds like one resilient cat!!
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