Status Updates From Esercizio di obbedienza

..., and I realised with horror that in signing my name to this rota sheet, ostensibly to offer my assistance, I had in fact placed a burden on the townspeople to teach me how to do things, to explain by gesture and with difficulty their ways of being, the local practice of animal husbandry, to give up their own limited time only so that I could feel good about myself, about my participation in society.