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Published: July 31st 2009
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My... house... thing
The order of the doors: Kitchen, room2, my room Well I made it through that first night. It really was not too bad, but so not what I am used to. Looking back at this Eddys shack is really a palace compared to some of the 'houses' around here.
The camping Mosquito net sucks. Not sure if I mentioned it, as I used it briefly in Zimbabwe too, but its a horrible thing. Its more like a sheet with holes in it. So when you use it, it claustrophobia's around your face. When I used it in the centre, I had a bunk bed, so tied it to the slat of the bed above me, but it still hangs over you like a sheet. Its not quite big enough, I'm sure my feet or hands or face was always popping out. Needless to say I am praying I don't get Malaria as I am not on anti-malarials
Off to the centre, which was probably only a 1km trek from Eddy's pllace. The centre consisted of four structures. Two buildings and two other 'buildings'. The main one was the classroom for the rejected kids from the village. It consisted of a small classroom for the kids, maybe 5 x 4m then it had a 3 x 4m room attached where some of the older girls did sewing and tailoring. Then there was a small office and storage room at the other end.
The other building housed my room. The room was kind of being finished on the day, by that I mean the room I was to be staying in was having curtains hung, and mattresses placed. Fully furnished it seemed the rooms where about 3 x 5m, literally just a sleepout with 4 beds (2 bunks).
So there were the two sleepouts, one of them furnished and a kitchen type room, really a 2 x 3m room with a bench in it.
The other two structures consisted of an abandoned chicken coop and an outside kitchen type room, they mainly used this room for making porridge for the kids.. when there was porridge.
As far as meals were concerned I had paid out a bunch of US dollars for my 2 week stay and basic meals was part of the package. After having dinner later that day at Eddys he checked with me to make sure I was happy to be staying at the compound alone etc and I was fine with that So off we went, and there I stayed my first night, kind of like Zimbabwe except here I was literally the only person, no staff, no other volunteers just me. It was quite lonely. When I woke up I made myself a little calander with dates from the 10th to the 26th of July. Then Below the 12th I had a a 14 day countdown to mark off. Let me say now this place didn't have the feel of Zimbabwe, but I knew I was keen to work my way through my time so I could rejoin civilization. I had also added some things to look forward to on my calendar. Some more people were arriving in 4 days, and I figured I would have a shower in 3 days, then there was another group of University students (from Birmingham the main sponsor of the centre).
Just regards to the shower, true story, I just used the Kitchen arch later in the day when no one was around, and it wasn't used as a kitchen.
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