Purpose.

What am I doing here?

Six weeks is kind of an odd amount of time to be somewhere, so my job description is mostly just to be available. The basic direction I was given when I arrived were that I would be helping the accountant organize finances and  helping some recent graduates start their small businesses, which includes a mill to make flour, a small souvenir shop, and a bakery. I’ve helped with the businesses and finances, but have also had some other experiences in my time here so far.

These new experiences include:

- Riding motorcycles home in the rain

- Washing my clothes by hand

- Drinking fermented pooridge (it’s a delicacy)

- Fishing in a pond using a mosquito net

- Cleaning and gutting the caught fish

- Eating the freshest chicken I’ve ever had… I heard it die (Hospitality is real here; people will kill their chickens for you to eat when you visit their home… even if they only have a few chickens)

- Teaching preschool to kids who mostly speak Swahili… they needed a last minute teacher (kudos to all you teachers out there, it was exhausting) 

- Delivering donated medical supplies to local clinics 

A local doctor with his new stethescope