Sorry that I can't post very often these days. I am in the utter rural hills of East Africa. The only internet available here is SSSSSLLLLLOOOOOOWWWWWWWW, expensive, and very unreliable and I can only get to it once every week.
Some people have asked what my life is like now that I have arrived in Uganda where I will working for the next two months. Essentially my life can now be simplified into a series of unpleasant odors:
1) Rice and beans for dinner and lunch every day. Results in an unpleasant odor several hours after every meal.
2) Pit latrines. As a result of four cubic feet of human waste, they continuously emit an unpleasant odor which you can smell for about a 40 foot radius. Using them requires some skill and balance which I have not yet acquired.
3) No shower. To "bathe" you have to carry water from the well (about 1/4 of a mile away), and sponge yourself off in a somewhat private area. As a result, we only bathe about once a week and we smell bad almost all of the time.
Pictures to come (I hope).
Some people have asked what my life is like now that I have arrived in Uganda where I will working for the next two months. Essentially my life can now be simplified into a series of unpleasant odors:
1) Rice and beans for dinner and lunch every day. Results in an unpleasant odor several hours after every meal.
2) Pit latrines. As a result of four cubic feet of human waste, they continuously emit an unpleasant odor which you can smell for about a 40 foot radius. Using them requires some skill and balance which I have not yet acquired.
3) No shower. To "bathe" you have to carry water from the well (about 1/4 of a mile away), and sponge yourself off in a somewhat private area. As a result, we only bathe about once a week and we smell bad almost all of the time.
Pictures to come (I hope).
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