Pensamientos after 1/4 Año
Yes... I do read the very few comments that I get and I really enjoy them because they let me know that people use this to know what´s going on here.I am officially settled into the little town where I am going to live. I am super excited! I have almost an entire house to myself because the owners live in another city and will just visit now and again (my rent is $15 a month). Plus, my neighbors are a couple with a 4 year-old that teach at the school. They are SUPER nice. I went bird hunting with Carlos (the husband) yesterday) and I got one with the slingshot (he and his cousin got like 10 more). I think that we are going to have them for dinner tonight.
Some thoughts:
I live in a town where all of the houses are made of concrete and a lot of people walk around on the dirt streets without shoes (becuase they don´t have any)... and that is becoming normal.
I drove by Mascarilla, a small Afro-Ecuatorian town, the other day and I realized that it doesn´t really look that poor to me anymore.
I wonder if I am starting to look with new eyes at these things, or if I am just getting used to poverty.
I constantly answer the question: How much does someone make in the U.S.? (Or alternatively the statement: People in the U.S. make a mountain of money.) I have found that I am constantly trying to convince people that life in the States is not better than here. I use cost of life comparisons that make life there approx. 10x more expensive than here. This makes the $150-$200 they make every month relatively equal to a $20,000 salary in the states... it changes their $5 a day to our $7 an hour.
I wonder if I really believe that the quality of their life here is just as good, or if I am just embarrassed by all of the luxuries that we consider necessities. Probably a bit of both.
I think that I am going to get really good at cooking rice, beans, potatoes, and yuca. We´ll see. Oh yeah... soup is not a seperate meal, it is just the first half of EVERY meal and it is NOT a meal if there is no rice.
Send me emails... my letters are trickling off.
posted by Steve @ 6:22 AM
4 Comments:
hey steve! you are loved. i really dont know what else to say. i love reading what is going on. at times i wish i could talk to you and hear some funny/random stories (aka the day you had some bowel issues..hilarious).
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heya steve, great to keep up with your adventures. makes me jealous. so do you walk around barefoot too? i would love to be able to do that. i hate shoes! :-) keep the stories comin! love and prayers, faith :-)
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