Christmas...

It is really wierd to drive down the street or talk to people around town and so many people have no idea what Christmas is. It is real eye opener when you think about it. It is not just that they do not celbrate, but a lot of people do not even know what the reason is for the season. I hope they come to the understanding of what the holiday is for...

Supermarkets

After school today I had to go run errands to get some food for our flat. I will never take shopping markets for granted again. It was awesome when I first got here that we had to go to the market to get our fruits and vegitables. I love going and negotiating in another language for the price I know the food is supposed to be. I really do I think it is a lot of fun. The only problem being when you have to go to the market, then the "grocery store," then the bread store, then another store. All before you can come home and put the groceries away. It looses the luster and remember it is winter now so we only sweated a little bit :). Yes it is nice that at the market we hire a guy to follow us around with a wheel barrow and he takes all of our stuff out to the car for us. Then he even loads the food into the car which is awesome! Getting proposed to and having people find us in the market because are white so they can sell things to us however is not always the most appealing. Another day another adventure in the land of sand. Hoping for snow soon ;)

Stoplights.

What do you think about when you are sitting at a red light? What you are going to do later? What errands you have left to run? How late you are for work? How annoying the traffic is? Well when we sit at traffic lights here we are offered anything from chewing gum to a car wash. Sometimes the children that are offering are so persistent that they lay on your car so that you can not move. Not to mention you have cars coming from every direction regardless of what color the light is. So my mind does not wander much while I am sitting at stop lights, even though I am not driving. All the kids really want is a bottle of water, which we give them whenever we have one in the car. Can you blame them is it hot!