One Wednesday

So I thought I would dedicate this page to the activities that occured on Wed my homestay day. Homestay day was implemented by the Peace Corps in hopes that during training for one afternoon we would stay at home and experience everything our homestay families do. I was not looking forward to it but it ended up being a lot of fun so here goes with my schedule....
4:30- My Amaama wakes up, since we sleep under the same roof and she is very loud when she unlocks the door I wake up.
4:35- I go back to sleep
6:00- Wake up and try to find my toilet paper so I can run to the chimubshi (along the way I must greet my mom and tell her that yes, I have woken up well, even though I am in a super big hurry to make it to the RR on time.
6:10- Get back to my house and gather my stuff for my bath.
6:15- I tell my A maama I am ready to bathe and she takes one bucket of cold and one bucket of hot water in the bathing hut for me.
6:35- I return to find breakfast on the table as always.
6:50- I rush to the RR and rush around to finish getting ready.
7:00- Head to the big hut to meet the PC bus for tech processing in another village at 8:00
8:00- Tech Processing from the week.
12:00- Head home for culture day activities
12:30- Wash my clothes outside with my sister. It is kind of hard work but they were very good to help me.
1:00- Cut the tomatoes and onions. Cried like a baby from the onions and the smoke. They felt bad but I told them it wasn't a big deal. It really wasn't I just had onion juice and smoke in my eyes.
1:15- Made shima
1:30- Ate Lunch
2:00- Washed dishes. I hate doing it in America and I don't really enjoy it here either!
2:15- Swept the ground.
2:17- Wow, sweeping the ground is hard work. I got tired fast so my mom and my sister took over. We don't use regular brooms.
2:30- Took a nap
3:00- Went outside and set with my family. One of my neices had hair bugs (lice I suspect) so my A maama was cutting off all of her hair.
3:45- Went to the fields with my mom. We have a lot of fields. We picked corn and seet potato leaves for lunch on Thursday.
5:00- Arrived back home and I pounded casava root with my sister mom and niece who stared at me the whole time. I tried the pounding for a while. It was fun but I wasn't very good. Then my sister did it and she was really good. Then my mom did it and well she has a lot of years on all of us. It was actually a really cool picture. Africa in its purest form.
5:30- Then I sifted the root we pounded. I was better at that.
6:00- Made rice and soya pieces (my favorite) for dinner
6:45- Evening shower
7:00- Played tic tac toe with my sister in the dirt
7:30- Sat in kitchen hut with my family
8:00- Time to go get ready for bed.
8:30- Lights (my candle) out!
So that's a day! A really fun day that I enjoyed a lot. The women work their rears off here. Can't wait for ya'll to come experince it! Love ya vic