More valuable lessons from my site
At my site, you have 2 types of water to choose from. The 1st type tastes like chlorine due to the purification. The 2nd type is brown due to the river.
No matter how normal you think it is or how beautiful the sun is, leaving your door open is an invitation for unexpected guests, like children, neighbors and chickens to just walk in. Yup 1st one racists cow and now a chicken who prefers my house to his.
When seeing a white person, children think that you are on speaking terms with President Obama. It's really fun to play this one up for the kids.
Due to the lack of book stores at my site and the price for a book, you will find it normal to reread a book 20x and still read it each time as if it was your first time.
When someone comes up to you and asks if you have been saved by Jesus, it would be beneficial to you if you DO NOT lie in this situation. Otherwise you will be stuck in a 2 hour lecture on a subject you know nothing about.
Greetings are very important here in Kenya. That’s why you don’t see Costco size boxes of toilet paper. Why not just buy 1 role at a time, that way you can go back to the store and talk to your friends. I have found this is the only way I can leave my compound and go into the village.
The more rual parts of Kenya are on a different time than everyone else. It's called kenyan time. You have a meeting at 4pm? Better make it 6:30. You are thinking a quick trip into market to pick up your skirts, better make sure you have 2 hours to spare to talk to the people you meet on the way.
Even though I have tried to correct them and stay far away from the computer, my site thinks all visitors(another word for white people) know how to fix computers, teach english, and eat snakes. I am trying really hard not to break our school computer...and to stay away from snakes.
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