Since I have successfully made it through 6 weeks of Pre-Service Training it is time to offer 23 of my favourite things so far.
1. Real, delicious Chai
2. Purple plants
3. HERDS OF GIRAFFES!
4. Having one of the trainers tell us that we must “give head” (meaning bow) to elders because it is respectful
5. Guys I’m in AFRICA, I get to see Mt. Kilamonjaro and acacia trees all the time
6. Other PCT’s host sister pooped in the living room because she was too terrified to go past the PCT’s room to go to the Choo.
7. Maasai man putting his extremely gagged ear lobes up over the top of his ear to get them outta the way
8. Helping birth a baby cow
9. Mama’s ambiguity about what kind of “greens” were in the Mukimo (potato, corn, bean, “greens”dish)
10. Bursting out into moving renditions of Disney songs, esp. “Circle of life”
11. Dinner/Chai making attempt fails. You live, you learn.
12. Frisbee: Frozen Round Inuit Soaring Bowel Excrement Experience (Fake history lesson on Frisbee)
13. Starting new trends for the kids: Poa Punda - “Cool donkey” (long story)
14. Colombus Monkeys! / Waterfall hike
15. PC assult avoidance techniques: Throw things, yell for help, run away, soil yourself…
16. Kids in “face hole” hats/parkas (not joking)
17. Letters from home
18. Baobab trees
19. Baba always trying me to drink. Recent attempt while having an upset stomach; “just a little gin, it will do wonders.”
20. Getting our sites (especially mine’s temps rarely exceed 75 degrees!)
21. The silence. Non-city Africa is quite (except on Sunday, church is so loud)
22. Finger painting!
23. Sikh Temple in Makindu
More great moments to come I am sure. -N
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