# of bags returned from a missionary in Kenya: 1
# of bags of Peanut M&Ms placed in the bag as a "concellation gift" by said missionary: 9
# of beds/sleeping locations I've had, not including moving vehicles (i.e. planes, long car/bus rides): 9
# of times a goat has walked into our house and walked onto my bed in my village: 1
# of malaria diagnoses: 1
# of clinies to achieve a correct diagnosis: 2
# of days i had absolutely no appetite: 5
# of pills taken to cure malaria: 24
-- cost: 16,500 tsh
-- cost in America: a lot more
# of people who got malaria during the 8-week SIC summer program: 5
# of insects of different species i can often seen on my ceiling at any given time upon waking up in the morning: 5
# of spiders about the size of my fist on my ceiling at a given time: 5-8
# of bath/showers using only buckets: 6
# of American songs I've heard for the first time here on Tanzanian radio: more than 10?
# of houses with electricity in Majengo (my village): 3
# of schools we teach: 2
# of classes periods we teach per week: 15
# of kids in our smallest class: 24
# of kids in our biggest class: 100
# of people who attended our first community teaching: 130 (50 women, 80 men)
age of our oldest student (standard 6 = 6th grade-ish): 19 years old
time of walk to one of our schools: over an hour
# of kids in several of our classes who think that HIV is a punishment from God: all of them
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Your by the numbers doesn't sound too positive or fun, especially that whole spider the size of my fist thing and the malaria part. I thought they had a vaccine for malaria?? doesn't it have something to do with iodine...or i could be totally just making that up, who knows. But the whole new songs thing is cool, who knew you could get cultered in American ways in Africs? oh, and was the goat cute or just annoying and stinky? Because a cute goat might be fun to wake up to, as long as it wasn't trying to eat you blanket or something...anyways, glad your having in intersting time!
This entry was like flash back to DM videos playing throughout the night.
And the number of any sort of crawling thing and waking up to them.... um, i'm not sure i would be able to do what you're doing for that reason alone....
Vic told me he filled you in on the celebrity gossip here. crazy right? if i were you, i'd be glad to have a break from it all.
my goodness, kristin... "cute goat." Oh dear. Anyways, I hope you're feeling better and know that i'm rooting/praying/thinking about you while you're out there teaching.
miss you and heart you mucho.
<3 jenn
Glad to hear you're A-Okay. I have to say, waking up to giant bugs and spiders on the ceiling isn't exactly what I would look forward to as an experience. and goats... you're room must smell nice. But hey! Look on the bright side, if you've lived in Africa you can live anywhere. You won't even bother with electricity when you come back!
Liz =)
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