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
So the stuff is used for Killing weeds AND enhancing food?
I got to get me some of that!
This all sounds so interesting and fun. Coffee shop with a laundrymat, this isn’t a bad idea. Getting used to Bed Bugs ?
Cock Roaches ? Yikes. I am glad you are loving it. Take Care and God Bless Your Days, one by one. Love