The excitement began two weeks ago when on the final leg of a six hour car ride, the vehicle carrying Ben flipped taking a turn (see below). Fortunately, Ben made it out with nothing more than a few cuts and bruises, but three of the passengers were taken to the hospital for a week; everyone is now healthy and back at training. Kudos to the Peace Corps for quickly sending staff to be the first responders.
One week later, at about one in the morning Lizzy was woken up by a man peering through her window yelling that he wanted her. Lizzy was able to scream and scare away the intruder, and luckily nothing more came about. Lizzy's host Dad was kind enough to sleep outside of her hut for the remainder of the night.
And this leaves us with the snake. Ben was recently up at our permanent site in Kanona, when after dinner he went inside his hut and peering about with his flashlight noticed a tarantula on the wall. Having to face the music, Ben grabbed a shoe and killed the spider, on his way outside to throw the spider away, he was greeted by a Puff Adder snake, just a few steps from the hut. Instinctively, Ben screamed like a little girl, and the neighbor came over and swiftly killed the snake with a stick.
We are both very fortunate to have had such good outcomes, and such great people around us. Thanks to everyone for the prayers and well wishes to help keep us safe.
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| Photos courtesy of PCT Ben Frigo-Vaz |
