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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nYou may live in rural Africa if…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n – you can\u2019t remember what version of British, Kenyan, South African, or American English vocabulary needs to be used in the big city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – you wake up confused because the rooster did NOT crow at 4a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – you begin talking to your English-speaking friend in the wrong language without realizing it when trying to figure out directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – said directions involving no paved roads and a downed tree as a landmark doesn\u2019t make you flinch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – you\u2019ve been asked to name a stranger\u2019s newborn baby you just met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may live in rural Africa if…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n – at least one child has arrived at a destination without shoes, you\u2019re not Afrikaans, and you only notice because the sand is hot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – all-day shopping only involves a store or two that takes three hours round trip to visit and has 3-4 total aisles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n – your kids giggle while eating broccoli because it\u2019s a rare find of a treat during tourist season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – a tropical Christmas season is only announced by the Chinese store music and has no curb appeal to the nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – you are asked to carry a 50lb bag of rice, a large grocery sack of raw peanuts, and a sheet-wrapped bundle of ? to someone\u2019s cousin because you mention driving through that city in a few hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may live in rural Africa if…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n – the next public toilet is three hours away so you warn the kids to \u201cgo now or forever hold your…\u201d-well, you get the idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n – the stars are brilliant street lights when the sun goes down at 5p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – you sweep your Sunday school space with a tree branch, kick out rotting fruit, and chase away chickens before laying down a tarp floor for your class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – finding strawberries or blueberries once a year needs a national holiday marker on the calendar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n – you go to bed a half hour after your kids because, let\u2019s face it, there\u2019s nothing to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You may live in rural Africa if…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n – you have witnessed unexplainable joy amongst what could be cast off as desperate ruin, but is actually greater depth of perspective than material satisfaction could ever know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, rural Africa, how we love you despite all your quirks. Thanks for putting up with all of ours as we continue to learn how to live as acceptable foreigners<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n out here in beautiful, rural Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" – first name options include objects, Holidays, and days of the week. – you have to look up a picture of a squirrel on the internet to explain the American school worksheet to your Kindergartener. – you no longer barter for your daily produce because they know you\u2019re not a tourist. – buying said produce… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,62,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossing-cultures","category-mozambique","category-thats-so-africa","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/03\/img_2183.jpg?w=768\")
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