The everyday life

In the e-mails and texts I have received, you have been asking me different questions about how I’m dealing with the heath, what we are eating and how to shower in the jungle, if I have used my dry shampoo and how my life with the other volunteers are. I will tell you a little about it all. How to shower in the jungle? I got a quite nice room, it contains a bed, a table, two chairs and a clothes. I have gradually arranged myself in a nice way. I have bought a carpet and some other things to make it homely and nice. It helps a lot with candlelight and incense. The bathroom I share with Anne Mette. Every day, except from the weekends, a girl is coming to fetch water from the well. Each bathroom has three containers and that is for shower, toilet flushing and hand washing. There is an almost functional bathroom between our rooms, containing a shower cabin, a toilet and a washbasin. The shower is cold, but nice, no running water, it’s done by pouring cups of water over yourself and washing with soap in between. At the moment it’s so hot that you sweat almost doing nothing, and there is almost no wind. So yes, I’m having a shower every day. Have used my dry shampoo a little, sometimes during the day it’s nice to fresh up the hair. What to eat in the jungle? We are not doing much to get something to eat. Every day at 6.30 our kitchen ladies are coming to cook breakfast for us, then later the lunch and in the evening our dinner. It’s mostly rise, pasta and cus cus, with some kind of vegetable in a sauce. Before I came they had the cus cus with onion sauce very frequent – they were sick and tired of it, so I wasn’t popular when I suggested that we didn’t only had the pasta and rise, but also the cus cus. Now it’s ok, just not with the onion sauce. In the morning, luckily, we can choose to eat the porridge of oats. That’s nice. The bread and eggs doesn’t make me feel full for long time. We get a lot of carbohydrate, but on Wednesdays we get the fish for lunch, the meet for dinner and on Thursday we get the chicken. The other days its food for vegetarians, but that ok with me – the beans I really like and it makes you feel full in another way then all the carbohydrates. Dr. Bread is passing by the hostel every second day, and its lovely bread. Suddenly I like cheese spreads – a thing that I never eats in DK, but when a cheese-lover like me can’t get any normal cheese you find out that cheese spreads is ok. At the moment it’s season for the mangoes and the pineapples, and they taste so lovely and sweet. It’ like being in heaven – fruit heaven. As you can read I’m getting something to eat every day. At the moment I can’t complain about the food, even though it’s a lot like the same every day. Maybe I’m not that positive in a month.