A new week

Monday, October 25, 2010

I can say, “wow”, time is already passing fast. But I can also say, time well spent. I don’t miss actually being at home and the daily grind or as my past 2 months have been “alladays”.  However I do miss my daily communication. I just wish I could pick up the phone and share about my day and vise versa.

Things are starting to change around here already. I knew that volunteers would come and go, but I never knew I that I would like everyone here so much. They are absolutely some of the best-spirited people I have ever met. Unfortunately we shipped our Australian off today. I know I will have another amazing week and am looking forward to it but dreading next weekend, as I have to give up two of my roomies on Saturday and another on Monday. I couldn’t have been luckier to be housing (or hutting) with 5 people who mesh so well. Being American I am the butt of many jokes, I take them kindly mostly because they’re fairly true, you can’t help but laugh. Today during our planning time the joke was American’s make everything more complicated. Everyone else says horse riding, we have to say horseback riding because we’re too dumb to know where to sit if we don’t. (Not true that we are all stupid, but we certainly make it appear so). It really is fun banter all the time. 

There are most defiantly different social classes here like there are everywhere. The majority are very poor and the wealthy are not from here. The ones that moved here are people that saw opportunity, and have done well. Lots of the people we have met have been from South Africa and are just as modern as you and me. Others live what we would call a middle class life. They usually have a good appearance and are educated but are just making it. They still live in a little hut no bigger than some of our bathrooms, with no running water. Bathing and cooking with water pumped out of the community well that are placed every few miles. Probably not a penny to their name but happy just to feel like their making it.