Cultural Sensitivi-tee-hees

Studying French with a headlamp -- sans electricity

One of the things that we love most about being away from home is the constant reminder of how similar people are -- even amongst incredible differences.  We all want to be loved, we all want a sense of belonging, and we all laugh at universal bathroom jokes and slap-stick comedy -- even if your bathroom is a hole in the ground.

These are the things that we've recently been reminded of that are just plain funny in any culture (and we've seen them all this month):

1) Getting your boubou caught in the cab door and riding down the street with it flapping in the wind.

2) Emerging from a field of grass with toilet paper stuck to the bottom of your flip flop.

3) Farting in a room full of fans pointed directly at you.

4) Being asked by multiple Africans if you have a tapeworm.

5) A language that is easy to confuse the words for "man", "pee" and "yogurt".

Facecakes -- how do they do that?

6) Women in leopard-print skirts and zebra-print pumps.

7) The changing of the guard at the Presidential Palace.

8) A horse-drawn carriage transporting goats and Coke.

9) Slapping someone's forehead but missing the mosquito.

10) Facecakes.