44 – People in my training class when we arrived to Uganda
32 – People at my Close of Service Conference
21 – Age of our youngest volunteer at the beginning of
service (it wasn’t me!)
3 – Pairs of running shoes loved and destroyed in Uganda
2 – Hours my computer lasts without power
5 – Liters of water I drink daily
15 – Government schools that I work with
45 – Minutes to my closest volunteer
48 – Vacation days over two years
20G – Amount of music acquired in two years
$8 – Cost of a hotel room that your average Peace Corps
Volunteer stays in
4-10 – Tomatoes eaten daily
100 – Jerricans waiting to be filled at my borehole during
dry season
54 – Languages spoken in Uganda
$2 – Cost of local lunch of beef with huge portions
0 – Times I used my sleeping bag (why did people say to
bring this?!)
8 – Inches cut off my hair for Peace Corps and completely
regretted
5 – Journals filled during my Peace Corps Service
$296 – Monthly Peace Corps salary
3rd – Highest birth rate in the world
13 – TV series watched while in country, some of them
multiple times
6 – Hours to reach the capital, Kampala, from my site
3 – Dead rats found in my house
$0.40 – Cost of a Coca Cola in the village
14 – Passengers legally allowed on a taxi
22 – Passengers usually on a taxi in my region (not
including babies and small children)
41 – Plays in the past month of the song “Coming Home”
because I’m COMING HOME
1 – Day remaining in my Peace Corps Service
