Seven strangers, thrown together, in rural India... I doubt MTV will ever make it here, but the other volunteers and I jokingly compare our lives to the “reality” show. Seven of us, from five different countries, have finally moved into a house FSL has rented for the purpose of housing volunteers as well as provide a more southern office location for FSL project coordinators. There are three bedrooms, an office/living room, one shower, one Indian toilet and one western toilet, and a shrine room where keep a jar of nutella as an offering to the numerous deities. The “kitchen” is just a smaller room with shelves. We have been promised a mini fridge, a stove, and a cooking lady, but they are still absent.
Although we come from different countries and are at entirely different stages in our lives, we all love learning from one another and spend a lot of time laughing. We band together through the power outages, curious neighbors, a landlord who amiably barges in and out as he pleases, insect infestations, and other India woes. At the end of the day, as we chatter about our daily activities over another dinner at our favorite restaurant, Tiffani’s, the causes for complaints fade away.
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| our beautiful green house |
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| my room |
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