In one entry...
Africa is fantastic. While I drank a beer and walked on the dusty street last night under different stars, I realized that I've changed a lot. I fel like I can empathize more, like I can be independent ANYWHERE, that I can survive even the most awkward situations and overall, just be okay.
Life at home seems so simple now as I dodge traffic, jump deep open gutters, yell words in Twii, and live as a wealthy American in a poor society. When I bitch about doing dishes by hand, and realize I'm lucky to have running water here...I learn. When I am almost in head on collisions every day in overcrowded tro tros and tense up, I remember my car at home, and the paved streets everywhere.
When a child, covered in dirt from digging through trash all day, comes up and grabs my hand and smiles, I just realize how easy I have it; how lucky I am for everything at home, and how much more I can be to people outside of my own continent.
It's funny that this is just the suface, because there is so much more. My life is unimaginable
Life at home seems so simple now as I dodge traffic, jump deep open gutters, yell words in Twii, and live as a wealthy American in a poor society. When I bitch about doing dishes by hand, and realize I'm lucky to have running water here...I learn. When I am almost in head on collisions every day in overcrowded tro tros and tense up, I remember my car at home, and the paved streets everywhere.
When a child, covered in dirt from digging through trash all day, comes up and grabs my hand and smiles, I just realize how easy I have it; how lucky I am for everything at home, and how much more I can be to people outside of my own continent.
It's funny that this is just the suface, because there is so much more. My life is unimaginable