Never Had We Ever…

  1. Been offered food from a hungry child

  2. Fed children their only meal of the day

  3. Been pulled over by the African police and gotten out of a ticket with a Kit Kat Bar

  4. Seen such beautiful sunsets

  5. Lived in the same room with another married couple and a single guy for a month

  6. Cut grass with a slasher (a tool like a golf club with a blade at the end)

  7. Drank extremely salty water every day

  8. Gardened beside African grandmothers (called “Gogos”)

  9. Had to make sure our trash was fully burned so children wouldn't try to find food in the trash

  10. Had to get a scorpion, a bat, and a huge beetle out of the shower

  11. Spent the night in a traditional Swazi beehive hut

  12. Painted all day in the African heat

  13. Done manual labor in a skirt (Hannah anyway)

  14. Hitch Hiked (A normal means of transportation in Swaziland)

  15. Had to be careful of crocodiles

  16. Diagnosed a broken ankle

  17. Been stranded by a bus driver that was scheduled to pick us up but never showed

  18. Had kids around our house all day every day

  19. Tried to find a sewer pipe by picking a random spot on the ground and starting to dig

  20. Been so remote that we had to drive an hour one way to get to the grocery store every week