My Peace Corps Experience By the Numbers

Just a quick, and hopefully fun, update for everyone back home.

An overview of my Peace Corps experience by the numbers:

Months in country: 19
Months left in service: 6
Christmases spent away from home: 2
Books read: 65
Scorpions found in my house: 2
Dead bats found in my house: 8
Classes taught per week: 25-30
Average class size: 45
Students at Bande Girls' Sec. School: 300+
Teachers at Bande Girls' Sec. School: 16
Teachers who have been at Bande longer than me: 4
Average wake up time: 6:30am
Average bed time: 10pm
Bouts of giardia and dysentery: 4
Malaria "scares": 1
Phones owned: 3
Languages spoken in a day: 3 (English, Kiswahili, Luo)
Kilometers to my village from school: .5
Hours to nearest paved road: 2
Proposals from Kenyan men: countless
Trips out of Kenya: 2 (Uganda and Europe)
Time spent having not a clue what is going on, especially when traveling: ~80%
New Cooking Skills Acquired: numerous
Electronics "sacrificed": 4
Times that the personal property insurance paid off: 2
Grad School Apps in progress: 3

Hopefully I'll be adding to the books read in the next 6 months. I have set a goal of reading 100 before I leave. That's what happens when you don't have electricity in your house and desperately need entertainment. Thanks for reading!