you know your in chad when.....
you thank God for big mosquito bites because its probably not Anopheles
when.....
your family conveniently forgets to tell you they built a new latrine behind a garden of corn because the old one was broken. you use the old one and fall in.
when.....
being able to kill cockroaches unafraid is on your bucket list
when....
you find out several kilometers too late that your moto taxi driver just may be functionally intoxicated and you just hold on and hope for the best the remaining 20 km.
when....
every other child that shakes your hand has ringworm
when....
you feel that spending 30 cents was really too much money and try to argue it down to 20 cents
when....
the thanksgiving turkey is going to be a goat
when.....
the headlights on your motorcycle is actually your headlamp
when....
it's illegal to ride 3 persons on a motorcycle, but ten people crouched on the roof of a careening vehicle is perfectly acceptable.
when....
you get sent back home because you were riding your horse without a passport.
when....
the second you start congratulating yourself on that fact that your new chambre doesn't have cockroaches, you realize a rat lives there.
when....
you have to get poison for said rat on the sly because too many people were poisoning each other, making it now illegal.
when....
you wish you had malaria because at least then you would know what was wrong with you.
when.....
you show the bizarre skin infection that appeared on your ankles and quickly spread to the only non OB doctor and he laughs and says "you should probably get that looked at."
when....
you actually see a case of measles
when....
7 pm is really getting past your bedtime
when...
the 12 year old picks up something you can't carry and puts it on her head
when....
1 try out of 10, you can actually get into your email
when....
a box containing anything packaged, processed, colored, or otherwise genetically modified sends you into hysterical shrieks of happiness
when....
the nurses are reprimanded during worship for drinking wine concealed in juice boxes during their shift.
when....
everyone around you is eating crickets (I ate one!!! took me 10 minutes and a wide range of sound effects and facial contortions)
when....
washing clothes by hand is cathartic
when....
your sitting in the dirt writing this.
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