Being on vacation has been a really nice break from school, an opportunity to get into my village a little more and a great chance to see some other volunteers. But also, this time of year is a time that is usually spent with family back home so I have definitely been missing that. That said, I had a great time with my new friends here over Christmas!
On Christmas Eve I had my first shower in the rain ever. I highly recommend it. Two other volunteers and I got in our shorts and got clean out in the rain as it poured off the tin roof!
I spent the holiday at a neighboring site with about 8 other volunteers. And thanks to some really great planning by our host we had many of the Christmas comforts we would have otherwise been missing: a Christmas tree, stockings, egg nog, Christmas music, puzzles, a gift exchange, games and a feast!
On Christmas we went into the village and watched a soccer game. While we were setting up some chairs to watch the game a big group of village kids came and stood in front of us to watch this big group of white people in strange clothes and a radio blaring "All I Want for Christmas is You." We played some hop scotch with them in the path along the field and eventually drew a new hop scotch....uh...course? pitch? court? whatever it is... behind our chairs so that we could keep watching the game. The good guys won and after a few pictures with the teams (sorry I don't have them yet) we returned to the house and made a fire and had s'mores!
After Christmas I headed back to site briefly and then it's off to Zanzibar for New Years!
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