By the Numbers

365 days ago, I flew out of PDX.

# of airplanes it took to get me from PDX to GBS: 4

# of months spent in pre-service training: 2

# of months at site:10

# of Etsha villages: 13

# of countries I’ve been to in the past year:4 

# of oceans I’ve seen: 2 

# of days gone without water (max): 16

# of significant water storage containers in my house: 8

# of months lived without refrigeration: 3
# of hours I've gone out of my way just to get a milkshake: 2

# highest (known) temperature reached, in degrees Fahrenheit: 109 

# of times I’ve really cried: 4

# of baskets currently in my possession: 8

# of kids usually at my house in the afternoons: 5

# of pula deposited into my bank account each month: 2,875 

# of dollars in interest my student loans have accrued while in deferment: 1,122.91

# of semi-poisonous spiders I can see right now: 6

# of poisonous snakes I’ve seen (alive): 1

# of times I’ve seen elephants around Etsha: 6

# of miles hitch-hiked in one trip (approx.): 1500

# of Americans in my house: 12

# of contraptions I can use to access the internet:3

# of  phone numbers I have had: 3

# of projects that I feel were/are truly successful: 4

# of books read: 47

# of shoes that have been decimated: 8

# of Bots 12s in April 2012: 47

# of Bots 12s now: 40

# of miles between my parent's home and mine in Etsha 13: 9741.81 

# of days until Close of Service: 426

More musings on reaching the one year mark to come...