Quotable Moment

While escorting one of my first grade students to the office after she fell outside and cut her hand and knee:

"Mrs. Peterkin (principal), can I borrow the First Aid kit to clean up Abby?"--ME

"It is somewhere out there on the shelf, but it's probably empty"

Oh the challenges....

You Know You're a Peace Corps Volunteer When...

• You shake out your shoes for bugs and spiders before putting them on.
• You have only one functioning house utility at a time. Either the water is off, the electricity is out or you've ran out of cooking gas.
• Your alarm consists of birds chirping, roosters calling or goats screaming
• Air-conditioning comes in the form of high velocity fans.
• Only one electronic can charge at a time because your adapter sparks.

• You go nowhere without your Nalgene water bottle
• Ants in the kitchen cause you to curse at them.
• You've read more books in the last 3 months then you did in all of high school.
• Marriage proposals are second nature. 
• Bugs are the size of small rodents.

• Laundry takes all day and depends on if rain is falling. 
• You eat Ramen for two days so you can afford a beer on Friday.
• Most of your friends are under the age of 12
• You're best meal of the week comes from your landlord on Sundays.
• You talk to the green lizards in your house.
• You stare when you see a white person you don't know.
• You end your long day with a beautiful sunset.

• You talk about bowel movements when around other PCV's (and rate them)
• Receiving a package in the mail is like Christmas morning (and you hide the contents from other PCVs)
• You only buy as much groceries as you can carry home. 
• Being asked to hold a small child on the bus isn't unusual. 
• You carry your own toilet paper to school.
• You become a hoarder of anything that can become a project (toilet paper rolls, boxes, bags, bottles, etc)
• You curse the U.S. Government if they don't pay you on time. 
• You hate Peace Corps trainings, but go just because they feed you lunch.
• Ants in your drinks/food become an added source of protein. 
• You can fall asleep on a bus ride, squeezed between large adults. 
• Your lifelong best friends were government issued.

• You're students ask you why you are white and you respond culturally appropriately "because Jesus made me that way".
• You match your sweat rag to your outfit. 
• You love when friends visit from the States, because they bring American food.