我有位朋友，就是在文中的chichun，目前在伊拉克做和平工作。這是她最近寄來的信，記錄他們生活的點滴。
可曾想過，「衛生紙」在你生活中有多重要嗎？衛生紙又真的那麼必要嗎？
換個眼光，沒有什麼是「一定」了！
Hilarious June Update: Toilet Paper
We hope this article will bring smile to you today. The serious Iraq team update is coming soon.
When the team was preparing to live temporarily in the IDP camp, a question arose in people’s mind and the team asked our translator for the answer. The team asked: “How do people dispose of the used toilet paper? ” Our translator advised us: “ You can start practicing to use your left hand and water now so you won't need toilet paper”. It was a big challenge to the team’s comfort zone although this idea is culturally, economically and environmentally friendly. The toilet paper won out over the idea of hand and water. The team decided to bring a wastebasket.
In the last week of June, the team realized the finances were running dangerously low. The team was preparing for one more trip to the IDP camp for the month of June and had to decide between transportation and toilet paper. If we chose a convenient and comfortable way of transportation to the camp, we might not have money to buy toilet paper for the rest of June. If we chose a less comfortable but cheaper ride, we could afford to buy toilet paper. Again, the team struggled with the hand and water method and, at the end of this struggle, toilet paper won the battle. One neighbor heard about the team’s economic trouble. He offered the team a cheaper car and 4 rolls of toilet paper. Again, the toilet paper won for the third time in this week.
But can toilet paper always be the winner in our lives? Many years ago, Chihchun joined a labor camp in a village in Cambodia. On the first day, she could not smell or see any toilet. She brought this question to the host through a translator. They told her: “ Find a pig, she is your toilet”. Chihchun was to shy to ask more details about how people go to the toilet. The next morning, armed with the advice of the locals, her imagination and old habit, Chihchun showed up in front of a mother pig with toilet paper in her hand. When she finished, the mother pig and her babies ate everything that came out from her except the piece of toilet paper. Chihchun moved the toilet paper to the mother pig. The mother pig turned her head and refused to eat the used paper. Finally, Chihchun gave up and realized she had to leave this dirty evidence in this clean paradise. She felt ashamed to visit the village again.
Toilet paper is a stuff we don't really think a lot about in daily life. However, it can be our last straw sometimes. Think about what it would be like if the team has to close the project for not being able to provide toilet paper.
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