Day 23 Mar 25

Thursday March 25 Day 23

This morning I went on a trip to the ATM machine. It was the usual 2 hours of walking there and back. The trip back was a little easier because I did not take my back pack. I now have enough money to pay 2 months rent with a little left over for daily expenses. My daily expenses are averaging about $2.90 a day, not including rent and cook. The rent and cook cost $11.15 a day. So I am living on about $14 a day or about $425 a month.

My major task this afternoon was the laundry. It is now 5 pm and I am going to bring the partially dried laundry in. If I leave it over night it will get wetter.

The other excitement was that the British lady who is staying here was headed for the hospital as I returned from my money hunt. She has been having the trots since she arrived a week ago and was on her way down the hill on foot. I suggested very strongly that she take a taxi since she has not really been eating for 4 or 5 days. She agreed. I checked in on her a while ago and she was very glad I recommended the taxi because it was a much longer walk than she realized. She also had not thought about how she would need to walk back up the hill. She figured out the entire trip to the hospital including taxi, prescriptions and doctor fees was about $15.