Okay so a few funny moments from my life here in Africa..
1. If someone doesnt eat rice in a day it is like they havent eaten at all. They just aren't satisfied unless at least one meal is rice and plassas and are also perfectly content having rice and plassas for every meal of every day. Most adults wont even taste spaghetti when I cook it because they are disgusted just by looking at it.
2. Many people are terrified of dogs biting them because they think their teeth are poisonous. I spent one entire school period talking to the other teachers about how the teeth arent poisonous but sometimes they do have diseases they can spread to humans that are fatal. But this belief has caused many children to react quite strongly to Keba (my dog) except most of them call Keba over to them and then run away terrified when he comes. haha
3. At clubs here people go just because they love to dance. People dont go to meet with people or dance with anyone else, they just go to dance. It is actually a lot of fun just watching them because most of them can dance really well, it is just very very different from the club atmosphere in America.
4. I was talking to another teacher at my school about taking Limba lessons and he directed me to a man that he said would make a good teacher. His directions: "Just go to that black man that lives down the road. He will teach you Limba really well." I just stood there looking at him for a minute before slowly saying "But you're all black..." We had a good laugh over it. Apparently when people here say the "black man" they mean the person with very very dark skin. haha
5. Keba comes with me to school everyday. One day we were in the classroom and I had just given an assignment to my students so I sat down to relax for a bit. Then I look over and see Keba slowly start to lick the wall. I let out a small laugh so Keba looked over at my while slowly continuing to lick the wall with his tongue out the side of his mouth as though to say "what mom? The wall tastes good.."
6. I was walking with a kid one day when he got really really excited from seeing a big grasshopper. He had his friend catch it for me and then proudly showed me. I asked if he was going to keep it as a pet. His reply "No. I'm going to eat it." And he did. He ate it. He didnt even cook it first. haha
1. If someone doesnt eat rice in a day it is like they havent eaten at all. They just aren't satisfied unless at least one meal is rice and plassas and are also perfectly content having rice and plassas for every meal of every day. Most adults wont even taste spaghetti when I cook it because they are disgusted just by looking at it.
2. Many people are terrified of dogs biting them because they think their teeth are poisonous. I spent one entire school period talking to the other teachers about how the teeth arent poisonous but sometimes they do have diseases they can spread to humans that are fatal. But this belief has caused many children to react quite strongly to Keba (my dog) except most of them call Keba over to them and then run away terrified when he comes. haha
3. At clubs here people go just because they love to dance. People dont go to meet with people or dance with anyone else, they just go to dance. It is actually a lot of fun just watching them because most of them can dance really well, it is just very very different from the club atmosphere in America.
4. I was talking to another teacher at my school about taking Limba lessons and he directed me to a man that he said would make a good teacher. His directions: "Just go to that black man that lives down the road. He will teach you Limba really well." I just stood there looking at him for a minute before slowly saying "But you're all black..." We had a good laugh over it. Apparently when people here say the "black man" they mean the person with very very dark skin. haha
5. Keba comes with me to school everyday. One day we were in the classroom and I had just given an assignment to my students so I sat down to relax for a bit. Then I look over and see Keba slowly start to lick the wall. I let out a small laugh so Keba looked over at my while slowly continuing to lick the wall with his tongue out the side of his mouth as though to say "what mom? The wall tastes good.."
6. I was walking with a kid one day when he got really really excited from seeing a big grasshopper. He had his friend catch it for me and then proudly showed me. I asked if he was going to keep it as a pet. His reply "No. I'm going to eat it." And he did. He ate it. He didnt even cook it first. haha
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Good morning how are you?
My name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Sierra Leone? I understand perfectly that you think that your e-mail is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Sierra Leone in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and a original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com, where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
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