Day in the Life

This is now an average day in the life of Drew Wagner:

-riding in the back of a pick-up truck Mexican style (meaning that there are at least 5 other people in the back as well, and probably more) for about 2 hours of the day

-climbing up roads in that truck that are unbelievably steep and bumpy

-going to sleep to dogs barking at 10:30

-waking up to dogs barking again at 11:30

-waking up again to roosters crowing at 12:30, and again at 1:30, and again at 2:30 and again at 3:30 (am I the only one who thought that roosters only crowed at dawn? Because that is definitely not how it works here), and then getting up at 7:15 because breakfast is in 15 minutes

-going to do something at 8:30 and having that mean that we are really going sometime between 8:40 and 9:00 (being the least punctual person in the world, I love this fact)

-at least 5 times a day hearing in-depth, mind-blowing stories of peoples lives from Alvin, and often more than that, leaving me to wonder if he actually could run out of stories

-seeing mountains on every horizon line

-at least once a day having a view of almost the entire city, and having my breath be taken away every time

-seeing a downpour come across the entire city before it gets to me (takes about 20 min) because I’m on top of a hill downwind

-saying “no comprendo” multiple times

-having gang members ask me for drug money… while I’m standing in the church building, and of course responding to most of things he was saying with “no comprendo,” because I really had no idea what he was talking about (looking back, he must have been getting just a little frustrated… this is going to be a good story to tell in person).

Yeah, that sounds about average for me right now.