My African Nights With the Help of Some Modern Technology

Peace Corps journey starting to get a bit strange, which means so am I! So don't mind the randomness :))

(Jotted this down on my phone late last night, saved it, and now I'm posting it, because that's what you do in Africa. If you don't have Internet at your convenience and fortunate to have electricity (like I do!), and you want to email someone you type it out on Word, or if you want to research something you make a note of it. Then hopefully by the time you find some wifi, you remember to post it, send it, or goggle it.)

"My African Nights With the Help of Some Modern Technology"

Not always, but since settling in my new village most days after work I get the chance to rockstar-it-out on the guitar for about an hour or so (more like fumble thru a few basic chords). Shortly after, I psych myself up to work out again and either go for a jog or pop in that psycho Insanity video. Following that I cook myself dinner (with no microwave usage). Then I compliment the home cooked meal with NBCs comedy Community (thanks Dominique Freeman) by plugging my external hard drive (thank you PCVs for the hundreds of movies/tv shows) to my laptop and have a few laughs while eating. Once the twenty-one minute comedy ends (that's with no commercials, meaning everyone back home who watches Community on tv wasted approximately 9 minutes of their life), its off to cleaning up the kitchen and turning on the electric kettle thingie to boil some hot water for the glorious African bucket bath. Jump in the tub, and slowly wash the desert stench off. Then it's time for some brain stimulation, so I unlock the Kindle,

click The Help (thanks Jess Chambless for the recommendation, and again Dominique for the dl) and begin where I left off the night before. Nine o'clock slowly rolls by, this means it's time for some chocolate motogo (motogo is Batswana porridge). Swallow that up. Finally, I turn on the Kindle for the last time, read for another hour or so, and then it's bed time.

Back in the US I'd be lucky to have the chance to do one of these activities in a night. So far, enjoying this African free night lifestyle (with the addition of all the technological gadgets).

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