I've become quite a list person. I've been obsessed with writing in lists and diagrams to map things out. Hopefully it hasn't gotten to incessant and annoying. Here are a few more reasons why I love Africa...

Sometimes cars will make three lanes on a two-lane road

Unisex bathrooms (literally there will be 3 stalls and 2 sinks and a picture of a man and a woman on the door)

A bathroom is often disguised as a bedroom closet

Bathroom sinks have two separate facets: one for hot and one for cold

I have gotten accustomed to cockroaches and bed bugs

When you have people over, you braai without fail

To braai is to BBQ, but you cook over hot coals and you always cook lamb and wors (sausage)

Beverages are called "cooldrinks"

I apparently look like I speak Afrikaans

Most people carry their groceries out of the store by the arm-full so they don't have to pay 40 cents per plastic bag

Stores are genuinely two random things in one. These are real places that I've been in:

    Internet & lingerie; coffee shop & Laundromat; gas station & petting zoo; swords and biltong (which is sorta like beef jerky)

When you drive Kombis everywhere, people think you are a taxi service and try to hitch a ride