had my hair done today!!
It took about 5 hours total and is giving me a major headache, but it looks so crazy! There's my hair and fake hair, brown and black—and there must be over 100 braids! The whole time the ladies commented "so white!" (talking about my scalp haha) But they also kept saying “smart sana” which means “looks very smart”, and one even said “NOW you're an African!”
Also, today I introduced Pipeline IDP Camp to Sudoku. I brought my book so that I'd have something to do while my hair was being braided, and after explaining it to a couple guys I basically had a line of men asking for a page from my Sudoku book—and then later on, I heard some men yelling across camp to each other. I asked Naomy what they were talking about, and she said “they're frustrated with your new game” lol! 3 hours later they were still working on the puzzles! Anyway, it was fun to see these grown men so invested in Sudoku :)
Otherwise today was pretty tame..it's been rainy all day so most people kept in their tents. I visited friends around camp then headed back to the house where I hung out with Emma and Tabs (they live in camp....but are always hanging around the house). Tomorrow I'm going to town for the afternoon to send e-mails and start fundraising for the house I'm trying to build. I want to leave Africa having given a family a new, better home. Rather, having given 2 families new better homes. In a perfect world, I'd have the funds to tear down a really run down tent on camp to replace it with a metal-sheet house. Then, I'd have a family who lives in a nice tent move into the house, and the family with the run down tent would move into the nice house—that way everyone gets an upgrade. I'm gonna e-mail all the people I can, and try to figure out how much, for example, 5USD or 10 USD will buy. Like, I know that 20USD can buy wood for the frame of the house. I'm gonna figure out some other figures...there's just no way to describe the standard of living here. And it's even harder to describe how comfortable I've become around it.
I'm also calling a local dentist whose number a past volunteer left to see if he'll come to the camp to give out free dental exams that he promised last year. People here don't have yellow teeth, they have brown teeth with black spots on them..that is, if they have teeth at all. There's so much to do that it makes my head spin!...or maybe it's just the braids..
Love you all!
It took about 5 hours total and is giving me a major headache, but it looks so crazy! There's my hair and fake hair, brown and black—and there must be over 100 braids! The whole time the ladies commented "so white!" (talking about my scalp haha) But they also kept saying “smart sana” which means “looks very smart”, and one even said “NOW you're an African!”
Also, today I introduced Pipeline IDP Camp to Sudoku. I brought my book so that I'd have something to do while my hair was being braided, and after explaining it to a couple guys I basically had a line of men asking for a page from my Sudoku book—and then later on, I heard some men yelling across camp to each other. I asked Naomy what they were talking about, and she said “they're frustrated with your new game” lol! 3 hours later they were still working on the puzzles! Anyway, it was fun to see these grown men so invested in Sudoku :)
Otherwise today was pretty tame..it's been rainy all day so most people kept in their tents. I visited friends around camp then headed back to the house where I hung out with Emma and Tabs (they live in camp....but are always hanging around the house). Tomorrow I'm going to town for the afternoon to send e-mails and start fundraising for the house I'm trying to build. I want to leave Africa having given a family a new, better home. Rather, having given 2 families new better homes. In a perfect world, I'd have the funds to tear down a really run down tent on camp to replace it with a metal-sheet house. Then, I'd have a family who lives in a nice tent move into the house, and the family with the run down tent would move into the nice house—that way everyone gets an upgrade. I'm gonna e-mail all the people I can, and try to figure out how much, for example, 5USD or 10 USD will buy. Like, I know that 20USD can buy wood for the frame of the house. I'm gonna figure out some other figures...there's just no way to describe the standard of living here. And it's even harder to describe how comfortable I've become around it.
I'm also calling a local dentist whose number a past volunteer left to see if he'll come to the camp to give out free dental exams that he promised last year. People here don't have yellow teeth, they have brown teeth with black spots on them..that is, if they have teeth at all. There's so much to do that it makes my head spin!...or maybe it's just the braids..
Love you all!
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