Things didn't go so well

You're sent into a village with no other English speakers to live in a grass-thatched-roofed house that ra- when it rains, it, you're, you're facing the elements.

Uh, the, to drink, the drinking water is out of a well that the cows also drink out of, and you're asked to defecate out in the field.

So I found the actual experiences of being a Peace Corps volunteer somewhat difficult to implement my function as an agriculture advisor.

[gentle music] But at the same time, I developed a love for the family that I lived with, um, and a very strong connection.

Um, you know, we slept in the same room together.

I was given a table at one end of the room to sleep on, and the whole family was at the other end of the room.

There was a class of Buddhists, the monks, who spent much time learning, meditating on a path to enlightenment But this was not a life granted to the villagers.