Since I have been here I've have learned to do many different things. I have become so use to doing so many different things already that I didn't realize that I hadn't wrote about it yet so here I go...
Water: I am very happy to say that Sega does have a water station/pump in the village. This is where the people go to fetch "fresh" water to take to their families. The locals carry the water in buckets on their heads which is so difficult, I can't even carry my bags of water on my head. I'm looking forward to learning to carry the water in the coming weeks because I asked one of the boarding girls, Priscilla, if she can teach me and she said yes! This is very exciting because this is something everyone in the village does daily and since I am living in a house with running water I have not had the chance to do so! I also do not drink the local water instead we go to a particular house in the village and pay one Cedi for a bag of about 30 water, which is pretty good. It's a fun part of the day going to get your water because it's a chance to try and carry something on my head ha ha ha! I'm still working on the no hands thing but maybe it'll come soon.
Wash: Wash is also something I'm crazy not to mention. Wash is done manually here, yes, I said manually. Everything is done by hand and it is VERY difficult. It's pretty neat too. You get three buckets, the first you fill half full, the second is half full as well then the third is a half or quarter full, not too much. First you order your clothes lightest to darkest (you really don't realize how much dye/dirt comes out you clothes). Then you put the first few things in the first bucket and take the soap and scrub. When you scrub (for shirts hold the two sleeves scrub the armpits, the front, the elbows, for pants the butt, knees and waist)this is where it is the dirtiest, then you look for any other stains or dirt. You then can scrub in a general manner. When you scrub you hold a piece of the shirt in your hand and rub the hanging part up your holding arm. It's really hard to put into words but it's like your arm is the wash board and you rub up it, then you move your hand down the fabric further and repeat. After the first good scrub you put it into the second bucket this is where you can rinse and check that you get all the dirt. If you see you missed anything you can scrub it in this bucket. Then after you finish the second scrub your third bucket is for rinsing. You have to make sure you give it a good wish around so no soap is left on it then you ring it out and it's ready to hang. Also that reminds me, when you wash your clothes, you wash them inside right so you can see the dirty/stains and when you hang it to dry you hang it inside out, this is in case it falls and/or the sun fades it. Washing is very tiring but I kinda enjoy it, it is a nice little break. As for your clothes... I don't understand how we think washing machines really clean our clothes properly because here, a white sock is not clean if the sole is not white.
This brings me to the animals. I don't know if I mentioned the animals around here yet or not but there are goats, turkeys, ducks, chicken, guinea hens, lizards, cats, dogs, spiders and many more. The animals are a very active part of my life here. I wake up every morning to the crowing rooster, who might I say like to get up particularly early and go to sleep to a ridiculous goat that I am convinced something is wrong with. The animals are all "kept" in the backyard which is fortunately outside my window. I say kept loosely because they wander the village/yards close by. The turkeys are probably my least favourite. The man turkey likes to puff up his feather and makes this puff noise as if he's some big tough guy looking to get a girl. Oh on that note, it's really not unusual for a neighbour to bring his female turkey over and stick it under the male so he can mount her. This was a pretty disturbing thing to see on my fourth or fifth day here. Both turkeys were making awful noises, the man turkey cock-a-doodling and the female yelping for help. Anyways other then that the turkeys are really ugly, it's funny because we thought they were so gross now come to love them after our men disappeared for a few days and new one appeared. The guinea hens are definitely the most annoying. They run around making this awful noise all day and all night. There is one guinea hen in particular that just runs the fence all day, back and forth, back and forth as if he can't fly over it but he can. It's like he's the watch hen or something. Then there is the goats. The goats around here make pretty normal noises and don't bother me too much. Although the baby goat, they sounds like crying babies so we're often like, "is that the children or a goat again?" Finally I'll quickly mention the lizards, spiders and mice since my roomie and I have been lucky to have them as pets since our arrival. The lizards scale the top of our room all day and night. You also hear them during the day walking around on the tin roof which is a pretty creepy sound, yuck. The spiders here are all over the place. We had one that sat in our shower for first week but now has moved on to someone elses I'm sure. Also the mice, well we had a pretty funny experience with the mice around here. I hate to say it but two have been killed already, one one night and the other the next.
Bahahaha but I'm sure by now you're probably thinking I've lost my mind and I'll take this as a chance to close. I will finish the stories about the mice in my next write up. Hope you enjoyed, I promise next post will be more exciting.
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