Thinking alot.
I´m trying to sum up this last 6 months in my mind. I guess I should be completely honest and say that it has been really hard.
The thing that has been most challenging has been to live together with at least 15 people, where 10 of them changes every 1-2 weeks.
Not much privacy living in a room with paper walls. Being around people all day around.
I have been way out of my comfort sone...
Last week we were visiting a friend we made the first week we came here in November.
He served us fantastic homemade food, and I asked him what he usually makes.
Then he showed us this book and told us that he wrote down what he ate everyday, (like his diary)
He brought a plastic bag and took out a bunch of papers collected together with a rubber band and said: "This is everyday from the tsunami happened..".
It was 14th of april, and he found the paper from last year and read the paper to us.
Two meals a day, lunch and dinner, so if they wanted to eat breakfast, they had to save half of the dinner till the morning after. If they got an apple they needed to split it into 4 pieces and they got one piece each.
First they lived in classrooms in schools. 4 families in each classroom. But then when the school started up again, they all (in this case 180 people) had to move into the gym at the school. Our friend lived there with his wife for 6 month......
As he was talking I tried as hard I as could to keep my tears from showing...
I felt so ashamed.
I complain for my living situation... but it´s really nothing compare to what they had to go trough...
It`s now just a few weeks left till we will be done working here, and all the wonderful amazing things with this place is appearing.
It´s very hard to see the faces of the friends we have made here this last 6th month when we tell them we are leaving.
Even though it´s been a challenging half year, I really love the people we now are leaving....
