This Is Africa
Sometimes I need some little reminders about where I am. Traveling so much, I sometimes forget where I am. Here are a few laughable things that remind me I am in Africa:
1. I said good bye to my camera as it dropped 22 feet deep in the squatty potty. Perfect aim actually. I was quit impressed with my skill that I didn’t even know I had! This was one of those things that I couldn’t even be mad about. All I could do was laugh that such a thing actually happened.
2. This is my third day tripping to my face in the dirt. I’m usually pretty good at balancing, but apparently Africa has shown me that the best view is not always from your feet. Sometimes it is good to see the ground from your face’s perspective. It gives you a new light on the world.
3. The last time I fell was while I was carrying a live chicken by its feet. Sounds victorious, huh? I thought the same as I was marching along. I thought I was so victorious in fact that I forgot to walk. The poor chicken will never be the same. I think it actually caught epilepsy from the whole “victorious” experience.
4. I am actually going to be cooking that chicken for dinner tonight. The bad thing is that on our walk home from buying the chicken, I accidentally became friends with it. Its name is judge bob, and I think we enjoy each others’ company, except when I give it epilepsy of coarse.
5. There are currently two cockroaches running around my keyboard as I type. Just for the record, they are not my friends.
6. Twice a day we are served tea from our host family. Everyone in Kenya seems to drink this tea. It is very delicious and I have often wondered what made it so good. I found out yesterday that the tea contains nicotine!
7. Everywhere we go, people point at us from all around shouting “MZUNGU!!!!!!” (which means white person).
8. The little kids were afraid of me the other day because I was a mzungu. After starring at each other for a while I decided it would be fun to play a game. Freeze tag was not a good idea. Seeing a mzungu was apparently scary enough, but to have one running at you was even worse. This one little boy tripped and fell so I ran to help him up, the volume of his scream and terror were dramatically increased.
A common phrase in our group has become “TIA”. This Is Africa. And I love it:-)
