My friend and fellow volunteer Kate tells me that she needs a cat. Why? She has a mouse problem. Every night, under the cover of darkness, a mouse crawls into her hut and steals the string from her cellphone pully system. Wait. Cellphone pully system?

Let me explain... Kate has VERY limited cellphone reception in her village. When Kate wants to send a text message, she types the message, hits "send" then lifts her cellphone to the roof of her hut--via her cellphone pully system--where she gets one bar of reception.

Only in the Peace Corps...