I've been back home from Burundi for the last three weeks now. I say home, but I've only actually been at home for one week and then we went away on a family holiday to Portugal. So this is actually my first experience of cold and rainy weather since the height of the rainy season (march/april).
This is the type of situation when I would normally curl up on the sofa with my favourite hoodie and big fluffy socks. My problem therefore lies in the fact I gave my favourite hoodie to a freezing child on the top of Mount Songa (tallest mountain in the Gitega province) and that my bedroom is still a total mess because my parents refurbished lots of the house while I was away and my things are still in crates and boxes strewn throughout the house.
I do honestly feel bad moaning about all these things when I know that there are people with far more to moan about, and yet some of the happiest people I've ever met have none of the "essential items" that we have in every home these days. I'm talking really basic things - not TVs and Laptop computers, but electircity and running water. Basic human rights yes? And yet these people devote their lives to helping others.
I really miss the simplicity of life in Burundi, I know I'll be back there as soon as I can, but I'm still stuck here in England until then.
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