Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools - Culture Matters

Pacing

"What about the 'work?' You'll notice I put that word in quotation marks, not because you won't work very hard here. It's just that you won't understand why it's so hard. In the States, hard work is 60 hours a week. Here it's waiting for things to happen, watching them happen at a pace that's absurdly slow by the standards you're used to, and then trying to work the way the people work here. Otherwise you won't be working with them; you'll be working for them."

-PCV Madagascar

How good are you at waiting for things to happen?

How can you handle the slow pace at which things sometimes proceed in country?

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