Thoughts…

1. Cheap and efficient way to build a fence… enlist in some school children for some child, slave labor. Send them into the bush to fetch some bamboo. Have them cut it and construct a fence for you… all the while you sit and watch them (maybe drinking mojitos… if only there was mint here.) But no, as much as I insisted that I want to cut the bamboo and help hammer it together to build a fence for my garden they whole community insisted that I send the school boys to fetch the bamboo and have them build a fence for me… and it’s built.

2. “I heart my bong”… whatever isn’t sold at second hand stores in the US and Europe and through various clothing drives, our ‘trashy clothing’ is sent to Africa to be sold at markets… so many people here run around wearing things that they don’t know the meaning to… boys wearing girls pants or a feminine cut tank top. So it was pretty comical trying to explain to my “small boy” what the meaning of his shirt was (and yes it really said “I heart my bong”, only there was a picture of a heart and a bong).

3. It was pure chore and almost punishment to do dishes growing up… but here I can be attempting to wash my dishes and my “small boy” will come running over saying “madam, madam let me to do the washing for you.”

4. Oh Africa!