Today I woke up to the bright light coming through the small entryway to my room. I got out of my bed and went on my way to find Marugue. He was in the kitchen eating a small bowl of rice, he had also made one for me and it was lying on his small coffee table. He said good morning and asked me how I slept. I said that I had slept very well. From there we ate in complete silence. I was very hungry even after the bowl of rice but knowing how hard it is to get food in his part of Africa I chose not to ask him for more being polite knowing that he probably eats just that bowl of rice for his whole day. I asked him what we were doing today and he said since it is monday "we ill' go to da' school". I went back to my room and got dressed in a light shirt and pair of shorts and vans shoes. We started our walk to the school and once again when we got there all of the kids were very surprised to see a white person participating with them. Apparently I was the special teacher for that and the next day and was assigned to teach the 1, 2, and 3 graders how to write and read the Alphabet. We all finished learning the letters Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, and Jj. I was told that we would finish the rest tomorrow. When the school day was over me and Marugue walked back to the house and started preparing 2 more bowls of rice, I was starving. When the rice was done we once again ate in silence. In the cool night air Marugue thought that it was a good time to manage his crops, so he and I worked on pulling weeds and looking for ripe vegetables. We found about 3 or 4 ears of corn so we took those inside. I soon learned that we were in the garden for about 2 hours and we were both very tired so we headed inside and went to sleep.
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