Friday, 17 February 2012

What we definitely won't miss

What we definitely won't miss, together, in no particular order:

1. Power outages (scheduled and random)
2. Bleaching our vegetables
3. Feeling sticky, sweaty, and hot all the time
4. Pay-as-you-go MTN minutes
5. Sand stuck everywhere
6. Being mugged/pickpocketed
7. Susie won't miss the storms
8. Spiders on steroids!!
9. Flies and "African Killer Bees!"
10. Boiling water everyday
11. Handwashing our clothing
12. Not being allowed to open the fridge for hours on end
13. Being honked at by every single car
14. Hearing "Makuwa!", "I take you home to Malingwa!", "Taxi!", "Shop Rite!"
15. Insanely fast driving
16. Giant speed bumps that rip off parts of the car
17. Sitting outside Shop Rite for an hour while we wait for them to "refuel the generator"
18. Having a choice of just three vegetables
19. Going through nine bottles of bug spray in four weeks
20. Locking down the house prior to sunset and praying that bugs don't get in
21. Constant fear of malaria
22. Bug guts all over the walls
23. Sweeping up insect corpses
24. Having to go to the internet cafe
25. Sweating in all sorts of new places

3 comments:

  1. Wait... bleaching vegetables? I require more details regarding this!

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    1. We had to put about a cap of bleach into a sink of water and soak our veggies for about 10 minutes. I can't remember what we were protecting against but cholera seems to come to mind.

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