Today wasn’t very eventful…well it’s only 4pm now…this morning I got up around 8am and had a cup of coffee and two biscuits for breakfast. Then I burned my garbage in the burning pit. Then I got my backpack (the Nike one…I use it every day…I’m so glad I brought it) and walked to the grocery store on a dirt path, that eventually winds its way over train tracks, past several fruit, vegetable, clothing, and trinket stands. I greeted about 20 people on the way there…in several different languages. Today was a good day for the walk to the store, because it’s not very hot today…I always try and wait to go when it’s overcast, ’cause it gets hot walking there and then walking back with all the groceries. I always do most grocery shopping at the Spar in Acornhoek, because the other grocery store has every cow and chicken part imaginable…entire cow heads with the eyes still intact…I feel like they’re looking at me when I walk past…so I go to Spar instead so the cows don’t look at me…LOL! I always get stared at in the grocery store, ’cause I’m 99.9% of the time the only white person in the store…well, I get stared at everywhere in Acornhoek, cause I’m 99.9% of the time the only white person in the entire town! Anyway, people in the grocery store always come up and look in my cart…I guess they are wondering what I eat…several people have asked me since I’ve been here what I eat…esp since I don’t heat meat here. When, I finished shopping, I loaded all my groceries into my backpack…the backpack it great for carrying groceries home…it’s also free…you have to pay for plastic bags here!! Then I made the walk back home…over the tracks again and along the dirt path.
When I got back home, my host dad said he was ready to move their extra bed from my front room…that made me very happy. After we moved the bed out, I put my groceries away. Then, since the bed was out of the way, I was able to hang up the rest of my pictures and maps in the front room!! Now both rooms are decorated, and it’s really starting to feel like a home!! I’m going to save up (if that’s possible on my income) and buy a bookshelf, trash can, and a couple of rugs…all of those things would only take about 100.00 U.S. dollars, but the sad thing is it will take me a long time to save that kind of money on my PC income!! O-well, I have to come to terms with the fact that I don’t have a “disposable” income.
So that’s about the extent of my day so far. For the rest of the day, I’ll work on my assignments for about an hour, then fix dinner and watch Furturama while I’m eating (eeekkk I’ve watched all the episodes that I have except for 3), then I’ll take a long hot bath in my plastic tub, then I’ll watch a movie, then I’ll go to bed! So, that sums up my day…tomorrow I’ll be at the school observing the teachers teaching.
Filed under: Peace Corps Acornhoek Tagged: | Peace Corps
