Observations

Here are some of the things that I have seen here which you would not normally see in the States:

1.      Equal number of women as men on a construction site.

2.      A cow, goat, or chicken walking in the middle of the road in town.

3.      A man holding another man's hand.

4.      Four children riding on one bike.

5.      Three teenagers riding on one bike.

6.      Two adults riding on one bike.

7.      Bikes being used to haul all manner of things from huge baskets of oranges to lumber.

8.      A child, around four, cutting up her own mango with a giant knife.

9.      Men wearing secondhand woman's sandals without knowing it.

10.  Clothes hangers that spread out at the waist area to make the hips as large as possible.

11.  Oranges being mostly green.

12.  Some guys having pink backpacks or other bags (again secondhand).

13.  Children sitting in the front row at mass all by themselves and behaving.

14.  The collection at Mass including an assortment of things such as bottles of soda, brooms, rice, and various fruits.

15.  Students at school using large machetes to cut the grass.

-Lauren