Here are some things I have not had or have not done since leaving the States:
1. Pet a dog.
2. Drink coffee.
3. Take a hot shower.
4. Watch Food Network...or any TV for that matter.
5. Have totally clean feet.
6. Eat candy...although that will change as soon as I get my mom's package.
7. Drive a vehicle.
8. Wear shorts...unless I'm running...and it's about 90 degrees here every day.
9. Use sugar.
10. Wear makeup.
Three things I've done here that I'll never do in the States:
1. Hitchhike.
2. Drink juice out of various containers unfit to hold substances for human consumption, like old oil containers, plastic bags...
3. Sleep 8 hours every night.
After reading this I just get this scary image of seeing you on the side of the road in The Gambia......you are wearing long pants but you are sweating like fat kid in gym class trying not to get picked for doge ball.....you are waiting on the side of the road for a strange car to pick you up (because you hitch hike now) and all the while you are doing this you are drinking some orange juice out of a motor oil bottle.......so now some strange Gambian man see's you on the side of the road and thinks damm I could use some oil for my 25 year old audi that takes more oil than it does gas. The man doesn't think twice about you sipping on this oil that you usually put in a car so he pulls over and asks you if you could spare him some of the oil that you have been drinking.....but you Carolyn.....in need of a ride.....you still let this poor African man put your juice in his car.....now due to the heat you have lost some common sense so not realizing that putting orange juice in your car will make it blow up you get in the car with this African man and you drive away to BLOW UP just a few Hundred feet down the road!!
ReplyDeleteJust watch out Carolyn.....there's a difference between trying and experiencing new things in a strange place and being unsafe.....just keep your Wit about you!!
Love
Matt
WOW that's creative, matthew...
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