2. Even in our rural mountain location, we often hear airplanes overhead. Our pilots make trips almost every day, whether to take people to the international airport in the capital, take translation teams to or from villages, or make supply/mail runs. We have helicopters and small 9-passenger planes.
3. Air conditioning is opening your windows. Heat (some mornings are in the 40’s during dry season) is building a fire, wrapping up in a blanket, or cuddling with your pets.
4. The clinic
recommends that we bleach all of the fruits and vegetables we buy at
the local market to clean them. One morning after bleaching, I found
a black bug crawling around my lettuce. (Eric wasn’t home to kill
it, so I had to kill it myself!) A few days later, a worm crawled
out of my broccoli while I was cleaning it, and I found an inchworm
on a carrot when I rinsed it!
5. Our two water sources are water that is collected in a rain tank (everyone has at least one in their yard) and treated water that is pumped in from the nearby river. We filter the rain water for drinking and use river water for laundry and showers.
6. All of our
trash (“rubbish”) has to be burned, with obvious exceptions such
as metal, ceramic, plastic, etc. Our trash gets separated into three
bins: burnable, non-burnable (which is collected once a week), and
food scraps (which get buried in the yard).
7. Several national ladies make tortillas to sell. We have a standing order with Rose, who comes to our house every Tuesday morning to deliver our dozen freshly-made tortillas, which cost about $3.
8. Most toilets have two options when flushing: full flush or half flush.
9. Because we are so close to the equator, the sun rises and sets at about the same time every day all year long, with sunlight from roughly 6:30-6:30.
10. Our (only)
grocery store has to do an inventory every year, which meant it was
closed for a week in September!
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