Tuesday, September 29, 2009

a year in africa by the numbers

exactly 1 year ago today we stepped off the plan in Accra
42 Peace Corps Trainees arrived
40 Peace Corps Volunteers Swore in
40 are still here
I've had:
4 hot showers (3 of which when Meg Hub paid for hotel rooms)
44 books read
18,061 pages read
49.48 pages/day
261 games of minesweeper won on expert
1 woman driver out of all the cars I've been in
1 cell phone tower
20 hours longest time in a tro tro in a day
1 cinnamon roll
200+ morning runs
1 marathon ran
4:43 marathon
43 minutes off my goal
0 times wearing jeans
368 days without hugging mom
15 months since Tripp and I have lost in darts
over 25 countries represented in tourists at my site
5,836 cedi sold of kente (recorded)
2 bear fights with Adam Luck
1 US presidents hand shook
1 first ladies hand shook
1 goat hit on bike
1 crooked nose from hitting goat on bike
1 chicken break in
1 lion attack near my village
3 Skype conversations with family
0 baseball games attended
$4,000ish donated towards basketball court so far
1 kente pattern designed and named by me
365 days in the same Adidas sandals
75 ish buckets of laundry by hand
1/3 of my clothes ruined until i learned how to wash better
5 languages attempted to be used in conversations in 1 day

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Favorite post to date!!

You forgot the number of soccer games watched and cheered for....

What about number of New old movies.

Dan don't be a number cruncher, you really have made a difference. Where ever you are at you make those around you better and happier.

Anonymous said...

1 new neice who can't wait to meet you in december
bef