D- Seriously, the first few
times you wake up at 6:30am and greet the day by trudging off to an ice cold
shower doesn’t seem that harrowing. After all, this is Peace Corps. This is
most certainly what I signed up for, right? Well… after about two weeks it
absolutely loses its novelty which motivates you to start cutting corners. Who
really needs to wash their whole body every single day anyway? After a while, I
only feel inclined to take the full polar plunge every 4-5 days. The rest of
the time I just wash my hair and let Old Spice take care of the rest. For those
of you not in the know, Ethiopia as it turns out is not that warm (especially
this time of year, and least not in many of the areas that volunteers go).
We arrived in Addis Ababa today for a counterpart workshop
where we will meet our Ethiopian co-workers at our future sites. We get to stay
in a really nice hotel which has most of the normal amenities that you would
expect from a hotel in the West and perhaps more. It was here where I felt the
very first warm water touch my skin in about six weeks. I find it impossible to
articulate the joy of something that seemed too mundane for thought less than
two months ago. I also had Chinese food today, which kicked ass.
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