Simple yet Complicated

One could say that here in Mundri we live the “simple life.” We move around by foot or bike. We have limited electricity and access to modern technology. Clothes are washed by hand and dried in the sun. We wake and sleep with the rising and setting of the sun. Each week we also have cooking assignments. We know that when it is our turn to cook dinner we should be prepared to set half the day aside for the task. To prepare a meal we have 3 cooking options: charcoal oven, propane stove top, or a sun oven. However recently our stove burners ran out of propane and it is going to take us a few days to get some more. This means that our 3rd cooking option has now become a local charcoal stove. We have now successfully cooked rice and beans for dinner last night and pancakes for breakfast this morning over this charcoal stove. So as you can see our life is simple in the sense of basic living, but it is also far from simple. Because everything takes so much time life also feels complicated. But even with this complication of time I really enjoy creating nutritious and delicious food from scratch and closing the cultural gap as much as we can by the way we live. Just as families here share responsibilities of cooking, collecting water, washing, etc. we as a team also function as a family which lightens the load and creates unity.