While pets aren't really a thing here, people often do keep animals: mostly goats and sheep, chickens, and sometimes ducks. I see them waddling around the neighborhood, and I'm not sure what breed of ducks they are, but they are definitely not the sleek, adorable Mallards from Make Way for Ducklings.
Despite spending all day hanging out in a trash-pile, these ones aren't really so bad, but some of the neighborhood ducks are really rough-looking - grimy feathers, feet caked in gutter-mud, misshapen wattles slowly taking over their faces. Poor little guys. It's sad to see a duck without a pond.
In other news, I managed to hook up a spare monitor from the Peace Corps office and am now starting to catch up on work stuff. Nothing spectacularly exciting, but it's nice to be busy again.
