At 10 I had my first real taste of a “lesser developed” country. Now while Costa Rica may hold a respectable position both economically and socially relative to its many neighbors, I still gained first-hand experience with sketchy bridges, hole-riddled roads, and daily electricity outages. It was delightful! A grand adventure!
I was not attempting to study Arabic.
My first few days in Sana’a lulled me into a false sense of electrical security. It is dusk as I write this—light enough that I can see the white outlines of my notebook, but dim enough that I can’t see a word I’ve written. Seeing as how I am barely able to comprehend what I have written in broad daylight, this is a huge problem. This is also the fourth time this has happened in three days. In good news, we have a generator for essential internet and electricity. In bad news, my bedroom is not considered essential electricity. And last night when the person who turns the generator on was asleep for the first 10 minutes of the outage? Well that, dear friends is why I carry an LED headlamp on my person. Useful and fun!
And the moral of this story is that we should all be happy we are from a developed (if economically slumping) country and you should all go give your local electrical worker a big hug next time you see him.
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No doubt head lamps have endless uses. I just got mine out to walk the brindles this morning, but then realized it was 40 degrees out and didn't want to get out of bed...good memories of Costa Rica - huh?!? Funny that trip sparked my interest in volcanoes and tropical vacations and your interest in helping foreign relations in underdeveloped countries.
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