10. Honking Horns in “traffic” continue to mean I’m coming, Get out of the way, or Hello
9. Atkins Diet does not exist here- 3 pieces of bread for breakfast, 5 for lunch, and 6 for dinner plus a side of rice
8. By the way the bread that we live on has a black tint on the bottom, we tell ourselves it’s burn marks but in reality its dirt from the wheel barrels its sold out of
7.Transportation consists of you plus 50 other people in the back of a small Toyota pickup truck. And beware of touching any passengers- they don’t like it!
6. Nightly rituals consist of checking each others hair for lice, worrying if you might have scabies (google it!), or getting eating alive by mammoth mosquitos
5. It’s a Haitian norm to pass a donkey, goat, chicken, or cow on the way to the beach
4. Ants continue to reside in the kitchen, in the bathroom, or on the table in your plate- sometimes eating in the dark is preferred
3. Taryn and Rocio will be starting an accounting firm when they get back- we do accounting with receipts in another language, that we can’t understand + 3 different currencies and we don’t even know how to balance our own checkbooks
2. Jenny Rose has become a local pharmacist- she prescribes drugs she has no idea what they mean or do but you can find her in the clinic daily
