Jumping Shqip

So Monday was the first day of school for me and the rest of the volunteers here in Kuqan. I was looking forward to it and while I wasn't sure how it was going to go I would have never guessed in a million years what happened in the first 20 minutes of school.

I walked in to the sparsely decorated chilly classroom and grabbed a desk. They're pretty small because they are made for younger students but you work with what you have right? Anyway as I'm unpacking my shqip ( we're quite puny here in kuqan) my stomach starts acting up and I realize that I really need to run to the bathroom. SO I asked our teacher and she said it was at the end of the hall. I run into the the bathroom and pick the last stall. As soon as I close the door I realize that theres no handle on the inside but I couldn't stop to think about that because of my current status. As i'm finishing my business I start hearing female voices. Thats right I was in the womens bathroom. To make it even worse the door was locked.

So there I am trapped in the womens restroom of high school in a country halfway around the world. I really didn't want to ask for help from the girls because I was think about how the people at the school and in the town would see me. Would they see me as some kind of perv stalking the girls restroom or just an dumb American? SO I text my sitemates and our teacher telling them that I was locked in the last stall of the women's restroom and couldn't get out.

After waiting for what seemed like an eternity ( it was really like five minutes) I start looking around for a way to get out and as luck would have it theres a window right next to me. I check to see how far the fall would be  and seeing that it wasn't anymore than 10 feet I climbed up the sill and jumped out. I landed square in the middle of another volunteers host parents backyard. Her host father then came over started asking if I was ok and what was wrong. I tried to explain but my shqip was pretty bad and I was kinda discombobulated so I just said that everything was ok.

So yeah until there's a lightsaber duel between Darth Vader and Darth Maul at your school my first day of school story beats yours hands down