I love my new life in Katote. Im not sure how to describe it except to say that it is beautiful.
Every morning I wake up at day break and run through the desert.
I come back and pull water from a well surrounded by happily chatting women, dressed in brilliantly colorful clothes, babies strapped to their backs.
I carry my water on my head back to my room and take a bucket shower outside under the mid morning sunshine.
I enjoy my morning coffee and bread outside while I listen to music.
The heat of the day is sometimes oppressive but I get to spend it rocking the happiest, sweetest four month old baby to sleep so that her mother can rest.
Every day I get to meet new people and learn a million new things.
There is even something beautiful about not knowing the language people are speaking around you.
You learn a lot about a person by looking at their actions and not their words.
You learn a lot about yourself when you have to depend on the kindness of others for every simple thing.
Every night I take a shower while watching the sun set and I sleep under the brightest stars I have ever seen.
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