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KERALITE
2018

nothing more than our attention and a ection. The motivation high. When we arrived back home, I was
villagers were so accommodating and caring, that subconsciously humming the tune of a popular
every time we expressed even an ounce of Haitian song. The family recognized it
discomfort they would quickly run to extinguish the instantaneously and pulled out their boombox to
problem. For example, after my friend and I had play it for us.
arrived back to our host family after a long day, I
noticed a huge, dead tarantula outside our house. I It was so liberating to be surrounded by a simple
never said anything about it except point it out to community who had never seen foreigners in their
my friend. The next day we came back and the life, yet immediately treated us like family. The
appalling arachnid was buried. Also, we usually language barrier certainly did not stop them from
played music at the worksite to keep spirits and expressing their love and gratitude for us.

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