About walking to school and back this morning, and then walking home from school this afternoon. and I was going to complain to my students who were walking home with me…but then I realized that the little people walk to and from school once or twice a day five days a week! And then it’s not like they go home and a snack is waiting for them. nope. Before school the kids usually will have to fetch water, do laundry, sweep the compound or house or both, and then they are off to school (by foot) and study for 4 hours. Then they walk home for lunch. And maybe they’ll do some more stuff around the house. And then they walk back to school. And study till 5 or 7 o’clock. And when they get home maybe they have to prepare dinner, or other chores or something…and then they study for a little before going to bed, and then they wake up at the crack of dawn to start the whole process over again the next day. And then on the weekends I will see my students walking around the neighborhood, not just hanging out or playing football, but with big things balanced on their heads because they are selling things…most likely food. oh, man.
I feel like such a lazy turd compared to the Beninese sometimes. Life back home may be a lot more fast paced, but somehow I think that we are (collectively) a lot more lazy. No, that’s not it…I am going to my fallback thing and just say that life is DIFFERENT.
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