Let me see...something I won't miss...I won't miss not showering on a regular basis.

As you know, most of you, for the last two years I averaged about two (if I was lucky) showers a month. Now, granted, a lot of that time it was winter and the temperatures outside were not condusive to leading one into sweating and thereby body odor. However, the temperatures in my classroom were not so low. I will not miss smelling myself on a regular basis. I will not miss the grimy feeling of not being clean. This goes along with the being clean part...I will not miss having to wash my hands with cold water. One cannot clean ones hands well with cold water. It just doesn't do the job of warm water. As far as the temperatures, on my way to the city yesterday (I'm actually writing this on day 6), the people in the taxi were complaining about how cold the air and wind was. This would not be important, if it had been January. But it was May. I was sitting in the front seat, with the window down and when I got out of the car, my back was covered in sweat. I was sweating and they were complaining about how cold it was outside. Hm.

Something I will miss...I will miss the kids in my village who say hello in a polite I'm-a-little-kid-and-you-are-a-foreigner-and-I-am-scared-of-you-but-I-am-still-a-little-kid kind of way as I walk to and from whereever it is that I go. Now this may be condtradictory to some of the other things I won't miss. The difference is that the kids in my village never really did it in a harrassing way. They were being polite and saying hello and asking how old I was. Some of these kids I had in classes. Some of them were neighbors. Some of them had no clue but knew that I was not like them. I played frisbee with some of them, and soccer, as well as other little kids games that kids here play. Anyway, in a way I will miss them saying hello. Maybe it's the child curiousity that I will miss.

Anyway, I'm digressing so I'll shut up. Day 6 coming up...

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