Arriving in
Our taxi ride, which was maybe 15 miles, lasted over an hour and a half. This delay was produced again, from the selling of goods. Some of main streets of
After you get acclimatized, you start to realize that you know fifty percent of the village’s citizens, apart from all the other baffled tourists you meet along the way. Everyone treats everyone else like family, and to get from point A to point B (usually a few hundred meters-it is a small town) could take up to an hour. Everyone you pass while walking to your destination wants to stop and talk with you, enjoy a drink with you, or show you their family. This was the second most rewarding thing.
Time started to disappear entirely. A day could feel like a week at times, because of these simple experiences one had going through his daily activities. I met more people in one month than I have ever met in that short of a time span. One particularly rewarding experience was when, walking along the dirt road, I met an orphan from the
They constructed a shanty type house (about 10 by 10 feet) out of wood and corrugated metal where they cook food on the floor and sleep on the ground. This type of lifestyle showed me extreme perseverance-more than I had ever seen in my life. If I was placed in their situation, I would have had no idea at all how to survive. Their life was simple and because of this, they were some of the happiest people. I ate Jolluf rice with them on multiple occasions, and talked about the atrocities of war and their pasts. They taught me how personal perseverance and the will to live on was one of the most powerful forces.
Usually when visiting a foreign country, you learn a lot about the sights and monuments in the country. In
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