Random observations and experiences

- Women do not shave here.

- It seems that nearly every cab I get into, the door is nearly ready to fall off or the door handle.

- Motorbike drivers NEVER look back at traffic before driving onto the road.

- There are several gas station attendants at every gas station.

- I can't help but wonder if the taxi drivers have carpel tunnel syndrome from honking so much...

- Women drivers suck here.

- All kids wear a particular colored shirt/smock for whatever school they attend.

- Traditional African clothing is wore by the older folks and never the young people.

- It seems like there are what I call "dollar store carts" every 5 feet. Makes you wonder how the vendors make a living with so much competition.

- Only the elite own washers and dryers here. There are many businesses that do laundry by hand, and I've seen men outside covered in suds scrubbing clothes in front of them. I came home to newly washed and pressed clothes yesterday, so after seeing how hard people work to clean clothes, I am truly appreciative.

- I rode in the front of a taxi yesterday where 3 adults and 3 kids were in the backseat. If I'm in the front seat, no one dares to sit beside of me because of my being white.

- I saw an ice cream cart yesterday and wondered how in the world ice cream stays cold in a wooden box. Unfortunately, I was in a taxi so I wasn't able to see inside of it.

- Yesterday's taxi driver asked to be my friend and then asked to be my Cameroonian boyfriend. I said, "No, friend only or nothing at all." He became awfully quiet after I said that-lol.

- You can get pedicures and manicures here; but honestly, with the way some of the places look on the outside, you wouldn't dare go inside for fear of your toes or fingers falling off later...

- Making kissing noises at me is soooo not going to make me turn my head.

- You know you're in Africa when occasionally ants crawl on the computer keyboard.

- You know you're in Africa when you reach in a store's fridge to grab a beer and there are live bugs in the bottom of the fridge because it's barely cold.

- Roadside vendors often take used plastic bottles and refill them with tap water/other drink, and then sell them. (I only buy drinks from the gas station where they all have seals on them.)

- There is a lottery here and there are little, round (hot pink) booths all over where you can purchase tickets.