Alas, the rigorous days of being a Peace Corps Trainee – knowledge and language cramping the brain and biking cramping the knees – are wrapping up, and soon I head to my permanent 2-year site-placement as a true blue Peace Corps Volunteer. Here's an essay displaying how adjustment is a continual process, and is forever entertaining...
During the tender developmental years of early childhood, I conversed with a spider – an imaginary friend spider, named Hadobee. Hadobee was a common house spider with brown fur, green eyes and four-sets of squiggly legs. He was a kind and attentive listener, who would perch protectively upon my shoulder, backpack, and pillow-case while I slept.
