Getting adjusted...

We arrived on a Wednesday night and were pleased to find out we have running water and electricity (although it was broken for the night). We are staying in little rooms with 2 bunk beds with little room to walk. We have a living room (with concrete floor, couches, dinner table, etc) and a bathroom with an open shower and an AMERICAN toilet!!! We couldn't have asked for a nicer place for where we are. We are definitely not roughing it. There are tons of bugs because we have water front property (which makes it pretty cold at night and in the morning). Not many mosquito's though- very nice! We do catch on average a mouse a night in our rooms...but we're used to them now! The food we eat is amazing for African standards- the occasional traditional African meal but mostly we spend a few hours a day preparing meals. WE have an American stove and oven- makes cooking much easier. We have invited guests over for different meals wanting American food- they always eat it all because it would be rude not to but they don't shovel it in their mouths like we do. You can tell they think our food is weird. Tonight we will be going to village houses for dinner (bringing our own water of course) but we will be expecting to eat everything prepared so we will be getting the FULL immersion experience! Oh and...every time we eat with guests we have to SING for them- our choir is a bit rusty- but with a few nights of practice...we have perfected a few songs for them (RENT, Lean on Me, and This little light of mine- random I know- but that's what we came up with). Their singing however is amazing!!! I'll write how the village meals go later!!!