Thursday, July 26, 2012

You Know You're Living in a Developing Country When...

...it's midnight and you notice a mosquito inside your mosquito net. You get up, turn the lights on, risk waking the kids up, and frantically attempt to squeeze the living daylights out of the puny insect. After squishing it with a sense of triumph you examine it to see whether it has striped legs or not (dengue fever spreading 'Tiger' or Aedes mosquito, or not) and whether it's stuffed with blood. Then you go back to sleep.

...you've been dealing with cool/cold showers and dishwater for a year only to hear from your next door neighbors that we actually should get hot water straight from the tap. Can it be true we get hot water? It can't be true... It IS true!! Turns out the faucet wasn't properly open. And we're called 'technical advisors,' here working in development.Hm, who is teaching who, I wonder...

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