Guinean Francs spent on cell phone credit: 10780
Mefloquine pills consumed: 4
Loads of laundry done: 3
Days when no rice consumed: 2
Liters of water consumed per day: 5
Snakes seen: 1
Hours of class per week: 36
Number of fans in the main meeting room: 0
Loaves of fresh bread eaten per week: 4
Number of children in the family: 6
Number of chairs in the family: 2
Standard number of people in a small taxi: 7
Cost of three cucumbers: $0.17
Presidential assassination attempts: 1
G-20 Peace Corps Trainees over age 24: 0
G-20 Peace Corps Trainees under age 22: 0
Number of loose stools per day required for diarrhea: 4+
Shots received: 7
Total hours of electricity at house: 11
Packages received: 0
Good days: 26
Total hours of electricity at house: 11
Packages received: 0
Good days: 26
3 comments:
ok sweetie... the package is on it's way... love ya, mom
First we had the "Harper's Index," now it's the "Tosten Index."
Great stuff, Tosten!
Here's a mountain poem for your birthday, Tosten. Many happy days! - kda
Above Pate Valley
- by Gary Snyder
We finished clearing the last
Section of trail by noon,
High on the ridge-side
Two thousand feet above the creek
Reached the pass, went on
Beyond the white pine groves,
Granite shoulders, to a small
Green meadow watered by the snow,
Edged with Aspen—sun
Straight high and blazing
But the air was cool.
Ate a cold fried trout in the
Trembling shadows. I spied
A glitter, and found a flake
Black volcanic glass—obsidian—
By a flower. Hands and knees
Pushing the Bear grass, thousands
Of arrowhead leavings over a
Hundred yards. Not one good
Head, just razor flakes
On a hill snowed all but summer,
A land of fat summer deer,
They came to camp. On their
Own trails. I followed my own
Trail here. Picked up the cold-drill,
Pick, singlejack, and sack
Of dynamite.
Ten thousand years.
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