1. Spend an hour chasing a horse around a field to catch a horse to get to a meeting in a neighboring town on time. Had to ask the man in the corner store to come help me, was very difficult to swallow.
2. Go fishing for the day with spools of fishing line to fish with, a machete to catch worms with, and a stick to spear the caught fish with and carry home.
3. Get stuck in a neighboring town because there are no buses to my town during the weekend and my ride rolled his truck on the drive back to town (don’t worry everyone is fine, and its not uncommon to roll cars)
4. Wear a skirt and flip-flops, be invited to a soccer game, and borrow everything I need to play.
5. Watch fifteen grown men chase a pig slathered in lard run around a soccer field. (Side note: The man who caught the pig was in the car that I came in, that means I returned in a car with a pig on the lap of the man next to me)
6. Hold community meetings in everything from a health center, a community room covered in horseshit and the front porch of family’s house.
7. Convince twenty-four kids to attend a focus group in a room with a tin roof in the middle of an insane downpour.
8. Find an amazing third or fourth hand clothing store where everything is two dollars and has ancient goodwill tags.
9. Attend a family party (of a fellow volunteer) with people of all ages (infants to 90 year olds), a roast pig, dancing, karaoke, pin the tail of the bunny and piñatas.
10. Miss the bus, and have to wait five and a half hours for the next bus. Spend the five and a half hours loitering at a restaurant at the bus station.
11. Attend an art performance at an elementary school in a neighboring town with everything from traditional dance, Shania Twain, Michael Jackson and unedited hip hop songs.
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