This is Africa! This month I learned what this phrase meant and when to use it. For example:
When you find out public transportation is really the back of some ones truck. ~T.I.A!
When you think the back of that pick up truck is full, it really means you can fit about 7 more people in it. ~ T.I.A!
When it is perfectly normal to breast feed any where, any time, no cover up needed. ~ T.I.A!
Bathrooms are anywhere you can squat. ~T.I.A!
A shower takes on a new definition, example: bucket shower, baby wipe shower, rain shower meaning when it’s raining just grab some soap and have at it. ~T.I.A!
The sniff test determines what is clean and dirty.~T.I.A!
Bug spray is the new perfume. ~T.I.A!
Sunblock is the new lotion/moisturizer. ~T.I.A!
When your bus is supposed to leave at 7 go ahead and add on 2 hours aka African time. ~T.I.A!
A washer and dryer is your hands and a cloths line. ~T.I.A!
The market place is grounds for proposals.~T.I.A!
You know that “This is Africa” when every where you go you are greeted with a smile, a hand shake, and kids running to you so they can hold your hand. When a family who is in poverty insists on you eating lunch with them because you are a guest in this country and they value hospitality. When the people are happy and humbled for you to pray for them and their family. You know you were here because you will take with you the love that was constantly being poured out on you.
I wasn’t thrilled to come to Africa, it was never one of the countries that i desired to visit or do ministry in. Now I’m leaving a piece of my heart behind. Until next time Africa!
