Things I haven't seen/used in 6 months:
- The UPS man
- A dishwasher
- Cooking spray
- Curbside garbage pick-up
- Recycling
- Door to door mail delivery (or even having a street address)
- Voice mail/answering machines
- Netflix
- Coupons
- A debit card (or a credit card except for at 3 stores, which generally requires a lot of effort and is not usually successful.)
- A scale
- The furnace
Things I have seen in the past 6
months:
- A 2 year old child riding on a piki piki (motorcycle) without a helmet
- Clouds of blue smoke from overcrowded vehicles and buses with parts dragging on the road and sparking.
- A fuel truck leaking gas which was being siphoned at a traffic light into plastic bags.
- Highways suddenly ending with large concrete blocks in the road; traffic diverted on to dubious steep embankments.
- Literal “gridlock” traffic – where both directions refuse to yield so no one moves. People getting impatient and choosing to make new lanes into oncoming traffic.
- A flock of sheep stampeding past our house; mongooses racing around the hill.
- Traffic stopped for cows in the middle of the road
- Lots of bugs and creepy crawly things: mosquitoes, ticks, flies, beetles, flying termites, centipedes, millipedes, one snake (thankfully from a distance).
- Tons of Barak Obama merchandise for sale (umbrellas, T-shirts, kangas, flashlights, etc. etc.) People here LOVE him and it's a guaranteed conversation piece once I say I'm from America.
- Evidence of spiritual warfare
- Something flowering all the time: bushes, plants, flowers, palm trees, mango trees, banana trees, etc.
- Guys riding bicycles with 30 trays of eggs strapped onto the back.
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