September 26, 2012
You know you’re in Peace Corps Tonga when:
Instead of the morning news, you enjoy your breakfast while watching a pig pooping outside your window.
Pigs of all sizes are everywhere here!
Your conversations include diarrhea, (either yours or your fellow volunteers or it is a 2 hour lesson with doctor Sam!) more often than not.
You become terrified of normal things you used to not worry about, like beaches, high grass, drinking any liquids, or eating any food….
You cannot count the amount of bug bites without the use of your toes….
You get overly excited when a toilette flushes all of its contents or is just free of any remanence of fecal matter…
On your walk to school you pass a dead carcass being cut up and cooked in an underground oven and you don’t look twice…
This is a giant eumu (the under ground oven)
You learn to embrace the bones in your food and chalk them up to extra calcium in your diet!
This is Vita (my host brother) eating off a cow leg... Maybe this will replace the turkey leg as the my awkward theme park food!
You learn that a cold shower is not much different from a hot shower if you are constantly moving and never keep any one-body part under the water for any amount of time….
You get pretty good at shaving without a mirror
Teatime becomes a necessity as opposed to a nice break
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