THE AFRICA "KNOWS"...

Previous Country:

You walk outside and the guard has given the dog a goat head to play with!

When you have to be careful to flush the toilet because after one flush you have to wait 30 minutes to flush it again.

It takes the whole day to buy groceries because there is not just one place that has everything you need, you have to go to multiple shops.

Worms become so much more than just those things you use for bait at the lake with your Dad…they get inside you!

You get called a senorita and asked if you are from Mexico!

The taxi you are riding in runs out of gas on a busy capital city and the money man reaches under the back seat of the van and pulls out a water bottle filled with gas to refill the van.

If it makes sense to you (in anything) you are probably wrong. Do the things that don’t make sense and you are right.


New Country:
You learn to fill up buckets of water when you are able to get it because you might not get running water in your house for days at a time.

It rains one random day in the desert and you have to put buckets on your bed because the roof is leaking.

Men wear skirts.

You put on pants, socks and a long sleeve shirt at night to try and prevent the mosquitoes from biting you.

You get really good at catching mosquitoes in the air with one hand, or the two-handed clap method.

You play UNO in your new language to practice your colors and numbers. (That was fun!)

You take a shower at 1:30am…because their actually IS water!

If you say you are engaged…it translates as… “Someone else already wants me!”