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Today's vocabulary word of the day : petchi; a metal square with legs used to burn wood in.

I seem to talk about petchis a lot recently because people back home keep asking me what these are. In my new digs, I have not one but two rooms, and in my "living room" I have a petchi. Now, after living here for 9 months, keeping a petchi going seems easy enough, but I promise you it is not, at least for me (especially with damp wood). I often get it started only to forget to add wood, or to add wood and smoulder what little fire was going. After some late night consultations with my friend Lacey, (Poke, prod, and....) I am now becoming master of my very own petchi. So you should all be very excited for what Peace Corps has taught me in life, because now I am advancing beyond where humans were thousands of years ago. My next stop just may be how to use tools?!

(just kidding, to defend myself against girly accusations, I will point out that I totally already mastered that skill due to an architect dad and shop class)