TIA: This is Africa

infront of the Nile

'TIA' is an acronym that we use often, here are some instances:

TiA, when a boy pulls up to you on his bike and has 10 live chickens hanging upside down from the handlebars

TIA, a naked baby being put on Macy's lap

TIA, when clothing often has holes in it, causing fingers to be in places they shouldn't be when holding a child

TIA, when bats sleep on your mosquito net 

TIA, when a truck appears at RG in the middle of the night and we hide in fear of the LRA

TiA, when a rooster regularly walks into your room

TIA, when you are allotted one square of t.p. for #1 and two squares for #2

TIA, when every question you ask to a person is replied with 'yes'

TIA, when you are walking down a dirt rode and come across a woman with a shovel on her head and a live chicken under one of her arms

TIA, when a pig is tide to the back of a bicycle

TIA, beans, cassava, cabbage….every day

TIA, mice…everywhere

TIA, never expect a shower curtain

TIA, when a prayer is said before any foot is set off RG, praying against: baboons, pythons, spitting cobras, nile monitors, and cape buffalo

TIA, when you go to sleep sweating and wake up in the same state

TIA, when you take the kids fishing in the Nile river

TIA, when that means to watch out for crocs and hippos

TIA, when you spend your day hoeing (by hand) an acre of land

TIA, when children are pushing each other in wheelbarrows filled with machetes

TIA, when hair and fingernails are cut with a razor blade

TIA, when peanut butter and fish are made into a soup

TIA, when anything is carried by your head rather than hands

TIA, when your feet will never be clean

TIA, when your shower is lit by flashlight

TIA, when you handwash 12 pairs of your underware in the same small bucket 

TIA, when you havent washed your pants for 3 weeks and continue to wear them

TIA, when you smash honeycomb by hand and make your own honey

TIA, when the presence of a spider the size of my palm is NBD (No Big Deal)

TIA, when sitting under a tree drinking a 16oz Coke for three hours is normal

TIA, when life is one million and one times slower

……….and I'm loving every moment of it!

marybeth

this is no tan line....just the everyday dirt line

honeycomb ready to be smashed