- The other day, after making what I was certain was terrible food for our watchmen, said "oh well, it is food and there are hungry children in. . . . Oh wait" *cringe*
- I am a constellation of mosquito bites and absurd tan lines. Farmer's tan combined with v-neck, additional demarcations at he elbow, ankle, knee, neck, watchband, and of course, a pretty stunning flip flop tan
- I have become reasonably successful at the challenging but rewarding one-handed midair mosquito grab of death
- After developing an aversion since the age of four, am starting to kind of like bananas. Unto recently they were, along with Korean food, one of two foods I have actually tried and hated without good reason
- <75 degrees has started to feel cold
- I am developing a new lexicon and it hardly feels awkward anymore. Peanuts are groundnuts, I "take" water, coffee, tea, etcetera, you "close" electrical outlets and stove burners, and the strong Salesian Italian influence has made mamma mia is my current exclamation of choice
- Half the words I use give me flashbacks of trying to explain it to my students
- I am definitely talking more slowly. Still not enough that the students can easily understand me but better than when I left Americaland
- I am beginning to recognize the various Nigerian movie actors and throw roles they are inevitably typecast in
- Our oven is kinda difficult and here, where you don't throw away dishes that don't go as planned, I am starting to weirdly enjoy the taste of burnt cake
Cake that ended up resembling a map. At the bottom right, see Africa and what is either Eurasia, or an elephant climbing Africa. |
1 comment:
i love flip flop tan lines :D
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