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After the super long naming ceremony, we went off with our partner from SAS and our host family, all of whom were assigned to us. I was with a tall dude named Andrew and our host was Pius. He was the computer repairman, technology teacher, cell phone and movie salesman for the village. Apparently he came to this town specifically because they were looking for help with all those things. His first language was Twee, which wasn’t spoken there. Ewe was the main language, and it seemed he’d picked it up, ‘cuz he talked to everyone there just fine.
We went back to his place, which was a five-minute walk or so through the town. A little boy held my hand the whole way but didn’t say a word. I wondered why he picked me, and I still wonder if they tell the little kids to do that. The place we were sleeping was fine, it had a fan and a window and two beds that looked comfortable and big enough. There were no mosquito nets, which worried us a little, but that actually turned out to be no big deal.
We were eating lunch somewhere else that day, so we went back to the bus to get there. Apparently it was near the dam, which wasn’t too far away. Oh, also apparently this whole village was forced to move when they constructed the dam. Damn.
We made it to the mess hall and washed our hands, and as happens in every large SAS trip, the girls just walked into the boys’ bathroom because their line was too damn long. We don’t really care as long as the urinals are hidden. It wasn’t a restaurant, which made me happy, I hate it when we leave poor places to go to super fancy restaurants. This is the same mess hall where the dam workers eat lunch. They had French fries which were incredibly popular, and chicken, which was pretty good. I took some soda, I think – I forget if they even had water. I had a nice conversation with the girls sitting near me, including Brittany and Ally, though I can’t really remember what we talked about in particular.
We ended up waiting there for a LONG time. We were supposed to leave after like an hour or so, but we ended up being there for almost 2.5 hours. Apparently the bus wasn’t back yet, or there was something wrong with it. All the busses were from
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