Day 6 and 7 - Fri/Sat

Picture this…hours before leaving on a bus ride through the night, the only pipe bringing water to Kusi breaks. No water=no shower and no toilet. That means when the time came to use the restroom…the only option was to: find bucket, walk down to river (just waiting to strike someone with bacteria of all sorts), fill bucket, walk the bucket to nearest toilet, fill toilet, hope for the best. Needless to say, it was successful. Jump forward a few hours, post tear-filled-goodbyes, and an hour past my bedtime, we board a double decker bus and emotionally, physically, and spiritually prepare ourselves for a drive to reveal the true personalities of your SLCA class of 2015. An unfortunate habit I have become accustomed to is sleeping laying down. After a few sleepless hours of trying to find a comfortable sleeping position sitting up, I resolved my ‘first world problem’ with the only logical solution. Although topped with a film of stale cookie crumbs, persistent shoe-loving dirt particles, and any bacteria waiting to infect another victim, the floor was calling my name. I wrapped my body in a blanket to give my immune system an inkling of hope, and stretched out to assume my all too familiar yet comfortable beyond description position. I’d like to end my story with a description of my sleep as though it was being executed by the one and only sleeping beauty, but it was not that glamorous. The 7 hour and 40 minute drive felt exactly 7 hours and 40 minutes. But we have made it to Lima. We are alive. And God is good. So is CVS brand sleep-aid.

---Kirby Hutcheson