It’s All Been Done Before
This, my second week at site, was a long holiday weekend. My supervisor and his family attended a conference in Windhoek leaving me to fend against nosy neighbors, overly attentive gas station attendants, and the errant donkey… Fortunately two other PCV’s kept me company as I tactfully sent a meddlesome neighbor on her way day after day, fought off lecherous advances, and shooed donkeys from the front yard.
Of course the PCV’s and I used this long weekend for an intensive brainstorming session to discuss vital development planning and formulate key tasks to undertake over the course of the next couple of months however during these critical talks we managed to throw in some fun in the sun.
Our weekend went a little something like this:
- Look! It’s a badger! Go check it out! [Slowly creeping up to the supposed badger] Nope… it’s just a broom handle.
- Why are you systematically starving the dog? Poor thing. He’s getting excited just looking at our dinner.
- God, Heath Ledger is hot. Too bad he’s dead and rotting in a grave. Lucky maggots.
Clearly our lives grow more exciting the longer we live in Africa. Anyone ready to sign up for Peace Corps?
