Thursday, March 1, 2012
Round two
I'll try this again. In had a very excitig large post all typed out and by the time it was finished the Internet was turned off so I could not post it and this morning it was gone! So here it goes again.
The day started off early as I heard someone calling Kim outside my room. It was the neighbor and when she heard me stirring aoru d she called me. I went up stairs and woke up Kim. The neighbor was really sick and ended up being on an IV all day.after a head butting day of school we had a wedding to go to. Tis was my first village wedding! Only three of us were goi g so that meant to motoswere going. I was driving one and ralph and kim on another. Driving a moto was different this time as in was in a skirt and flip-flops opposed to pants and shoes! As we get on or way down the road the other moto gets a flat tire. Ralph ends up walking so Kim will "dope" me. Being in a skirt means this will also be my first side saddle moto ride. Kim dropped me off at the wedding and went to go get Ralph. Me sitting on a log outside of the wedding was quite an ideal. I was this strange white person that people don't know nor do I speak the language. People still greeted me and of course stared at me one even tried to get me on his moto to go down the road to our cooks house. Imwas relieved when Kim and Ralph showed back up. We said some hellos and went in to the wedding. Kim let me know we will be sick for a week eating to food. All of the hands preparing the food we unwashed. Imagine unwashed as no bathrooms, no sinks, touching raw meats, touching people and animals, etc. Theprpared food was surrounded by pigs and dogs trying to get what food they could. We were served a raw salad (including the meat), fried meat bones still included, a whole fish, rice and intestine. The salad and the fish were good. Fried meat wasn't too bad if it was meat and not a bone, and I did not touch the intestine after the awful face Ralph made after he sampled what it was. The night ride home was intense. It was dark and bumpy. The only light there was, was the dinky headlight on the moto. I was holding onto the bike for my life as Kim was trying to hit as few and the smallest bumps as possible. This is not even an easy task during the day when you can see where you are going.
I tried to snap some pictures but it was dark so they are not the best quality.
We got to listen to the wedding music all night long.
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Wow Jennica! You will always remember your first teaching job!
ReplyDeleteI'm jealous of you Jennica and very proud. Enjoy every minute, the good and the bad. Soak up all the local culture. You are doing a wonderful thing and I know this experience will change your life! Great pictures by the way and keep us informed of your adventures!! Be safe and take care, Lindsay Little
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