Quoted from a volunteer's account of her Peace Corps experience in Ecuador, as well as her experience living in northern (Arua) Uganda for 3 years:
"How different it all was from the life of push-button ease and an antiseptic technology that I had left behind. It struck me then, for the first time, that life in America was the aberration. The life that played out below me - barefoot and soily, among animals, in a forced intimacy with the earth - this was how most of the people on this planet lived. With its stark existence and uncomfortable realities, this was the world that I was going to have to learn to be at home in if I wanted to survive the Peace Corps."
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