A watermelon, pineapple, some oranges, and a small bag of
clothes made up my luggage for the 2 hour flight on the small plane packed with
our friends and neighbors solar cooking panel, a small table and a few bags of
carrots back to Bere.
Preparing to go back to Bere I fiercely typed a bunch of
emails. Looked things up on the internet and made sure to get to the market and
buy some fruit… they had watermelon and pineapple! We don’t get that in Bere, so my items of
transport back were my small bag of clothes, and a watermelon.
Landing on the small dirt runway Gary pulled into the hanger
like most do pulling into the garage. A
few dozen mostly barefoot kids from the village came out to see the plane leave
and stare at the white people with all their bags of stuff… “back to the land
of awkwardness” I said to Athens. Even
if I were to wear what they wear I would stick out a mile away.
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