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| Young and fresh, two years ago. |
After two years of ridiculousness, I'm a RPCV! And to make sure we will never abuse our V.I.P. powers as PCVs, admin decided to really kick us in the shins by punching a hole in our I.D.
My last night in Ghana we decided to head to Duncan's, a local spot (pub) that sells 1 Cedi draft beers and banku and tilapia. Soon enough I will be stuffing myself with American food so why not go local one last time?
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| Bye bye, chop bars... |
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You Know You're a PCV in Africa When...
1. You take pride in how "rugged" you look.
2. Bugs in your food is only extra protein.
3. You buy clothes that are easy to handwash. Or not even worth re-washing.
4. You pack more toilet paper than underwear when backpacking.
5. You can identify children by their underwear.
6. You are okay with children openly defecating, but wishes they would not wave at you while doing so.
7. You burn or hide your trash not because of sanitary reasons, but because you don't want the children to know what you are throwing away.
8. You will stay indoors until the sun goes down and sneak out in the night to avoid greeting people.
9. You wonder what color your poop will be today.
10. You forget which side of the road you were taught to be on.
11. You are proud of how little water you use in your bucket shower but take hour-long hot showers at an expatriate's.
12. You are afraid of your latrine between 11 AM and 5 PM.
13. You pop pills like it will keep you from dying.
14. Nature does not call; it screams.
15. In two years you will age five.
16. You stare at white people you don't know but you don't know whether to greet them or avoid them because you don't want to be racist. In the end, you spaz a little.
17. You spend half the day in your underwear or not wearing any at all.
18. "Joining the club" and "riding hot" has no sexual innuendo, unless you're into poop.
19. Dry season is over when you pee more than once a day.
20. You know the war is lost but you refuse to give up the battle against ants.
21. You spend more time on the Talent Show than on your VRF.
22. All your stories involve your poop, someone else's poop, or mystery poop.
23. You gave up on cleaning the corners of your room.
24. You pray for rain so you have an excuse to stay indoors. Also to collect enough water to finally wash your hair.
25. You never trust a fart!
26. If you are not slightly sweating, you are cold.
27. You know your way around a wooden penis and a condom.
Next stop...HONG KONG!
Chop My Money - P-Square ft. Akon & May D
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