1. Bucket baths seem total normal, I’m not sure if I even remember how to take a shower
  2. My alarm clock is now a rooster (which likes to start around 3 am sometimes)
  3. Directions are given based on landmarks such as the water hole or the pink casa
  4. Peanut butter is now a luxury item (I would eat almost a jar a week back in the US)
  5. I now eat 5 times a day; breakfast, lanche, lunch, lanche, dinner, and sometimes after dinner lanche
  6. Seeing goats and chickens roam wherever they want seems normal, somehow the locals know who knows which animals
  7. Having kids stare at me, come up to touch me, call me a white person in different languages, or say hi, ask how I am doing or what my name is in English but not be able to say anything back when respond
  8. Limiting my conversations with locals to hi, how are you, and where I am going (this is not because I don’t want to talk to them, it’s because I can’t speak their language)
  9. My thighs are stronger now than ever before, due to all the walking up hills and the squaty-potty
  10. I’m getting use to being crammed into a van with 18 other people that is only made to hold 12, windows closed on a hot summer day, none of the locals wearing deodorant, and it taking about 5 times longer than if I were to drive from one place to the other myself.