A Mother's Love

As of now our class of 35 has split into 7 groups of 5. Each group is called a CBT. Each CBT lives in a different village. On Fridays every CBT gets together to go over things like logistics and safety. The trainees basically use it as a time to exchange our most ridiculous stories of the week. This was my favorite from a friend of mine named Shani...

So we were all hesitant at first to take a bath from a bucket. We didn't really know what to do. It is pretty self explanatory but you never know if there is certain protocol to follow. So Shani gets to her home-stay, likes it, likes the family yada yada yada. It gets time to bathe and the mother walks her to the 'choo.' So they stand outside and the mother explains how to wash. 'Here, here, etc." Bearing in mind that the mother doesn't speak a lick of English.

Shani is like 'Yeah, yeah I get it.' And she goes in and does her business.

Next day same thing, mother walks her out, explains how to do things, and Shani goes in to wash.

The third time same thing. Shani gets the explanation, goes in and starts to wash up, this time, the host mom walks in and proceeds to start scrubbing Shani down! Shani is so in shock she just stands there and is like, 'Oh my god! What is going on!' She doesn't want to offend her mom or anything so she doesn't know what to do since she's a guest in her house, and in a brand new country. Shes just there wondering what the hell she is supposed to do!?

Remember folks, the lady doesn't speak any English, so Shani is just standing there butt naked while her african host-mom scrubs her down! Head. To. Toe.

The mom then leaves and Shani is left there, jaw on the floor, she can't believe what just happened.

I loved that one.

Cheers,
Jayce