18.Jan.2011
*You use anthills as landmarks
> I know when I am getting close to my school when I see a familiar anthill.
Yes, you who live in the city, etc. will use buildings, people’s houses, parks, bridges, you name it. But I don’t think you use anthills much.
*All your roads (like only 2, really just 1 in Makwakwa) are all sand…and they are the main road
*All you see are bushes
*You get a little overly excited for fruits and vegetables
*People ask you questions like “What ARE you doing HERE?”
*It’s difficult to communicate with the members of the community because you don’t know the local language
*Your exciting pare of the day is to passear
*You see more bicycles than cars on your one road
*You go to town, you have to buy enough food…for an unknown period of time
*A puddle in the road is the local swimming pool
*You have one tree you can stand under in the exact right spot in order to have cell phone signal
*The community members all know if you go on your morning run or not…
*Somebody slaughters an animal, everybody goes to buy a slab…
*To buy bread is your purpose to go to the vila/village
*Your life is like the Discovery Channel, and you name a spider Toby and watch it grow (that what my site mate has done) or you save huge snail poop to show your friends
*You see other people, you realize you have really lost your social skills (as some people I met in MCC said, you wave with your WHOLE body…it just starts with the arm, but you get so excited to see PEOPLE that your whole body gets into the wave)
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