Roosters are Cocks

Things I like better than roosters:

1. Pooping in a STINKY pit latrine
2. Bathing in a bowl the size of Mom’s Sunday night supper salads
3. Hauling water from a creek for EVERYTHING
4. Boiling, filtering, and bleaching water before drinking a glass
5. Spending most of my Sunday in a stream washing my clothes on a rock
6. No air-conditioning to escape to in the African heat
7. Peeing in a bucket inside of my house after the sun sets
8. The smell of my hut in the morning after my pee has been sitting in a bucket since after sun set
9. Storms blowing my corrugated iron roof eschew so the rain can fall freely inside my hut
10. Men proposing marriage/sex to me on an hourly basis
11. Glen Campbell. Wait, no, I actually do really like Glen Campbell.
12. Corn meal and beans for lunch... every single day
13. Riding on a 13 passenger khumbi with 22 people and all of their shit and having the khumbi conductor use my lap as his business station
14. Men pinching my belly and telling me I am getting very fat (I’ve lost ten pounds since arriving here, by the way)
15. Men whipping it out and peeing while we’re in the middle of a conversation
16. People demanding I give them my clothing, jewelry, etc
17. Laying in a puddle of sweat in my underwear on my concrete floor, trying to soak up anything but the African heat



Evan very accurately demonstrating how to take a bucket bath!
(Picture stolen from, my sister, Jenny's facebook)