*You discover your popcorn, flour and oatmeal are literally crawling with little black bugs and rather than throw it away or pick them out, you choose to avert your eyes, eat and enjoy it anyway.
*Some people worry about their family heirlooms when they head out of town, you hide your Little House on the Prairie style washboard.
* Bathing more than once a week or in the privacy of your own home, without the neighbors, is bordering extravagance.
*In the last five months you've declined to marry at least 50 eager SPLA soldiers.
*Grocery shopping requires a valid passport, plane ticket, and leaving the country.
*You’ve been known to roll out of bed at dawn, hike more than a mile and a half straight uphill to the airstrip and show all signs of giddiness when John, your pilot, makes an airdrop. “Airmail” has a special sort of meaning!
*Reading between 1 to 3 books a week is not uncommon.
*House guests have been known to spit on your bedroom floor, while their babies do their "business" in the kitchen.
*Your Homestay papa's extremely limited English includes these well practiced English phrases, "I want to keel Toposa!" and "Me and my women are very hoppy!"
*Random late night gunshots inspire nothing more than a brief mid-chapter interference. I'm always keen to my mark my spot when deciding if I need to hit the floor.
*The cattle raiders and fierce warriors in your neighborhood display their manliness with dangly earrings, shockingly short 80s style running shorts, sweater vests, rainbow colored galoshes and, of course, AK 47s.
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