You know you live in Timbutini Africa when……
-You are sharing a room with 12 other girls.
-When the little boy next to you falls asleep on the half hour ride in the sprinter.
-You put on a pot of water a half hour early to take a semi warm bucket shower… Every 3 days!
-When you are sitting in Your hut and you hear the family next door casting demons of a family member.
-You enjoy taking night showers just to watch the stars.
-You do everything you can to get your laundry done by hand before 10am just to be sure it gets to hang in the heat of the day!
-You are still soaking your clothes in dettol to get rid of the scabies from the month before.
-You get woken up every two hours by the roosters talking to each other, starting at 11pm (He is super confused).
-You have two choices in bathrooms, one facing the house without a door, or the one facing the road without a door….(At least you can wave at the kids going to school from that one.)
-At night you skip both of the previous options and just go to the bathroom outside the bedroom door.
-You get purposed to at least 3 times a day at the bus rink. Apparently 30 cows is the going rate for an American wife.
-You will happily eat a nasty 5 dollar hamburger just to get 30 minutes of wifi.
-You hitchhike to school everyday.
-When you spend every day hanging out with the cutest kids you have ever seen!
-You go out to save a goat who got its head stuck in the fence, at least 3 times a week!
-You become addicted to honey melon sparkling water!
-You can see mars from Your front porch.
-You fill big metal barrels just so you have water to do your dishes, laundry, and to take showers.
-You make dinner with your headlamps because the electricity went out….Again!
-You make a pass time of chasing the rooster! (Payback)
-When you spend five hours trying to break down the door with any object you can find because the key to the padlock has been lost.
-You ride home from town and hold the little girls hand thats sitting in front of you the whole ride home!
Africa has been amazing! Not at all what I had expected it to be! I have spent the month assisting a teacher in a school at a care point. if it weren’t for this school all of these children would be running the streets all day! Its amazing to see how far these children have come even within the few weeks we were there. Every day in Africa is an adventure, You never know what You could get yourself into!
