This post is dedicated to my friend Debbie, who lives here in South Sudan with us and whose birthday was on Tuesday the 14th.
Since I couldn't buy her anything (you know, here it's hard to find even a bottle of decent wine), this is my gift.
ok, I bet that you have never uttered any of these sentences in your daily life:
1) Will I be able to shower with the frog this morning? (first thought of the day)
2) Did you hear the mine blowing up this morning? yeah, they're de mining again along the main road! (conversation on the phone)
3) Today I was in the car with the commissioner going to a school and suddenly we stopped because he wanted to shoot some birds (dinner conversations)
4) "What's your job?" "Oh, I'm a store manager" "Very nice, which store?" "Ah, we don't have one yet"....."Right!" (normal conversations with locals)
Was I right?
Well, if I wasn't it means some of you live in South Sudan SO COME AND VISIT ME! or maybe that your neighborhood is a bit dodgy (you might wanna consider moving out).
the point is, to us, these are normal people/life questions. When i wake up, i never know what I'm going to find in the shower. and I don't know whether it's actually raining outside or if they're blowing up mines.. again!
It is very funny though to think that these were not even real problems before coming here; but now we gotta deal with them.
best solution? just go with it!
like for example we are naming all these lovely creatures who are so nicely populating our every day life.
this is Jackie Senior, a lovely gecko who shares the office with me (Jackie Junior was a huge spider that I accidentally killed while cleaning my room):
Since I couldn't buy her anything (you know, here it's hard to find even a bottle of decent wine), this is my gift.
ok, I bet that you have never uttered any of these sentences in your daily life:
1) Will I be able to shower with the frog this morning? (first thought of the day)
2) Did you hear the mine blowing up this morning? yeah, they're de mining again along the main road! (conversation on the phone)
3) Today I was in the car with the commissioner going to a school and suddenly we stopped because he wanted to shoot some birds (dinner conversations)
4) "What's your job?" "Oh, I'm a store manager" "Very nice, which store?" "Ah, we don't have one yet"....."Right!" (normal conversations with locals)
Was I right?
Well, if I wasn't it means some of you live in South Sudan SO COME AND VISIT ME! or maybe that your neighborhood is a bit dodgy (you might wanna consider moving out).
the point is, to us, these are normal people/life questions. When i wake up, i never know what I'm going to find in the shower. and I don't know whether it's actually raining outside or if they're blowing up mines.. again!
It is very funny though to think that these were not even real problems before coming here; but now we gotta deal with them.
best solution? just go with it!
like for example we are naming all these lovely creatures who are so nicely populating our every day life.
this is Jackie Senior, a lovely gecko who shares the office with me (Jackie Junior was a huge spider that I accidentally killed while cleaning my room):
And that's Laura, the praying mantis that I found on the bathroom door while peeing the other morning (I stood up so fast that I almost felt dizzy):
Well, there you go.. meet my friends (the six degrees of separation can even work with animals, as you can see).
AND FOR THE RECORD, NO, I cannot shower with a frog.
what do you have against frogs anna?? HUH!?
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