A Classic

You all ready for a classic “If I had stayed in the US I’d never…” list?  Ready or not, here it comes.

I would never:

-have a personal bathroom, or step down into my shower.

-converse in such an incredibly friendly manner. Por ejemplo (for example), I said to a passing stranger on the street, “Good evening." She promptly replied, “How are you my love?”

-start and finish 4 books in 12 days; having few friends has its perks (this was during the observation part of my practicum and would in no way be possible now)

-cook during the school year ( I <3 my cafeteria). Here, my cooking is better than it’s ever been…mostly because before, it never has been.

-be tempted to buy small animals before 6:45 am. As if it’s not hard enough for me to drive by those great big PUPPY stores in the US, here they hold bunches of puppies on the corner as I go to and from work! And with this inflation, I’m sure they only cost 20 bucks.

-say, “Then Jesus saved the whole world from their fish.”

-learn the Spanish word for plunger. àgross implications

-watch Alf on an after-school television program (that one’s for you Jess and Dan)

-make my bed ever day

-hear an 8^th grader ask in utter nonchalance, “Should we do the skit in English or Spanish?”

-mime “live birth” in front of my host family and 15 other strange, though smiley, women. I do love a good game of babyshower charades.

-wash my dishes with the neatest little soap-in-a-tub, where the sponge lives happily and so efficiently ever after

-cook lunch (the main meal here) for four at least once a week. I think I already said something like this.

-have seen a 5 gallon tub of Cheese Puffs sold at Honduras’ version of Office Max  (this one's for you ULs)