Some random facts about living in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala…
1.
Crossing the street is like playing a real live
game of Frogger…except you only get one life.
2.
You can’t flush toilet paper!! It took me a LONG time to get used to this
fact…and now it feels like normal.
3.
Traffic laws are more like suggestions that
maybe people follow but maybe not.
4.
Horns are evidently used as some sort of complicated
communication system I have yet to figure out.
They honk CONSTANTLY!!!
5.
McDonald’s in a foreign country is like a
first-class restaurant. I mean…they
didn’t even let me dump my own tray in the garbage can and someone opened the
door for me as I left. I have NEVER seen
a cleaner McDonald’s…even the LIGHT FIXTURES were clean…and don’t even get me
started on the food!!!
6.
Time moves a LOT slower…. Being “on time” is
relative
7.
Come at 10 to play with the kids really
means…come prepared with a lesson, songs, and games!!
8.
I have NO IDEA what is going on in the world
anywhere….but we found out immediately when Michael Jackson died!!
9.
When the weather is HOT with like 100% humidity,
it is preferable to shower at NIGHT….I have given up morning showers!!! I have also accepted cold showers as gifts
from GOD!!
10.
Ice cream is from God Himself!! I have NEVER
eaten so much dang ice cream, and it has never tasted so good!
11.
Baby wipes are little miracle workers… the stuff
they can clean amazes me daily!!
12.
Right around bed time, the roosters start
crowing and the dogs start barking and fighting. They sleep ALL day and make noise ALL
night…you can’t close the windows or you will DIE of heat exhaustion…so you
just wake up every couple hours or so…
13.
Evidently there is plenty to celebrate at 4:30am….enough
to scare the crap out of a whole house of people by lighting the largest amount
of firecrackers I’ve ever heard.
Apparently this is not an unusual thing…
14.
It is defiantly not easy for 16 people to share
one bathroom. I don’t think I have ever
actually PREFERRED a public restroom…but I certainly do this month!!!
