17th of September
The money almost feels like taken from a game Monopoly and it's like I don't care about the cost of things. I haven't counted the change since I got here and I don't care about being ripped of for two times the original price. It's still not even a quarter of what I would pay back home.
The guide took me too the hospital today, just to be safe about the monkey scratch so I would be entirely defended against rabies. He gave me detailed instructions on how my insurance would cover this if I only followed his complex instructions... I'd stopped listening as soon as he mention the price for exam and the two shots they were gonna give me. It wasn't more then half an hour of work at the local supermarket for an hourly rate, considered that I didn't get any bonus. The actual work of getting the insurance money would take longer time then that. My guide didn't realize that.
Even though the kids are playing cricket with planks of wood and broken bricks from the close by construction, on a stony mud-covered road next to the rice fields right outside our house, they don't seem to mind it. They always shine up when I bring out the camera and take pictures of them, and due to the noise they make every single day they don't seem to be that low-spirited when I'm not around either. It's just an ordinary week and it doesn't get much better for them. I've got some trouble to process this.
My teacher and guide did teach economics and math before joining this volunteer program. He seems like an educated man and will continue his studies soon. Even he lives with three other guys in a small room behind a liquor store. When he cut of one of his fingers a couple of years ago he didn't even visit the hospital.
The fearlessness I sometimes admire is also the culture of not affording to care. If the guy selling fruit next to the heavily trafficked road did care about his health he would survive, to take an extreme example. I asked the young men I've seen carrying massive bags of sand to a construction everyday from sunrise to sunset, if their back hurt. I'm pretty sure my question went through the language barrier, but they just shook their head and continued.
I've learned a new sentence today from the guide. It's Malaai Matlab Chhaina. It means that I don't care.
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