1. Finding a frog the size of my hand in the latrine/shower at 6am.
2. The fact that it gets down to about 70 degrees in the morning and evening (nice, except when you have to take freezing cold showers in an outdoor shower).
3. The walk from my shower to my room is all on dirt, in turn by the time I get back to myroom my legs and feet are dirtier than before I showered.
4. The first question my host mom asks when taking me pasearing to people’s houses is “does your dog bite”. . .apparently we have a lot of “bravo” dogs in this community.
5. Everywhere you walk in my town is uphill. . .according to my host mom the town should be called Loma Fea (ugly hill) instead of Loma Bonita (pretty hill ). All the houses you see (white squares) in this pic are part of my town, and I am standing in another part of town lol.
6. Not having electricity, and in turn being in bed by 7, asleep usually by 8/8:30.
7. The fact that I get REALLY excited when I see electrical sockets.
8. The fact that NO ONE can pronounce my name correctly, I now am called Jay, Jills, Ill, Jeel, Hell, Jello and every other variation possible, in turn I rarely know if someone is actually talking to me.
9. Everyone tries to feed me or give me coffee.
10. Some days we have so many guineos madurro (ripe bananas) that I end up eating 4 or 5, and my host mom tries to get me to eat more, other days we don’t have any fruit at all.
11. My mouth actually hurts some days from smiling so much (what else can I do when I either don’t fully understand or the awkward silences have gone on for a bit too long).
12. The ant infestation in my room (the whole house that I’m living in really, all of my belongings, and often times my body, has ants crawling all over it.
13. The cat calls, hisses, kisses and honks that I get when walking, running or using my phone next to the road.
14. The amount of bug bites on my ankles and legs (sangre nuevo- new blood, como un bebe- like a baby. . .this is how I explain it to people haha because they ALL comment on it)
15. Having to walk 25 mins round trip to use my phone, see number 10 for what happens when I am on my phone.
16. Contemplating what in the world people are thinking when they see a white girl, wearing vibram 5 fingers, sweating to death, breathing hard, running up the insane hills on the side of the road (especially because I run through towns other than my own).
17. The chickens sleeping in the tree, not sure why, but it gets me everytime haha.
18. Attempting to get in and out of my mosquito net without it falling, or completely coming off my bed, and then tucking it back in so no bugs can enter. . .quite the process let me tell you lol.
19. I get overwhelmed when I have internet access, seriously, I actually feel stressed out not knowing what to do first lol.
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