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• Two 10 year old girls hand-washing your WORST underwear, the ones you deny even owning, and then hanging them to dry on the fence that EVERYONE in the community walks by!
• While you are deep in thought about what language is spoken in Afghanistan, while taking your morning bucket bath, a sheep enters and watches you!
• While you are singing out loud to your MP3 player under a tree, the children you were hoping to escape start laughing at you as they circle and stare like you are a zoo animal!
• In a country where the BIGGEST NO-NO is to eat with your left (dirty) hand, you eat with your left hand- in front of EVERYONE!
• When you attempt to hand-wash your clothes a small crowd gathers, and then when you place a shirt in the ‘rinse’ bucket, they point, laugh, say ‘pas bon’ and hand you back the shirt to re-wash.  Finally, they push you aside to wash YOUR clothes the “right” way.
• When you declare you are “here to help,” you get a stare that says “you’re crazy” and a response… “but you can not speak the language…???”
• Your ‘bathroom’ is merely a hole the size of the top of a paint can.  The days you ‘make’ it- a small celebration takes place.
• Everyday you are called “Whitie” in Moore or French (take your pick) until your host family tells you, you are not really white but red (Two words- IT’S HOT)!
• While riding your bike, you fall completely into a huge, deep mud puddle because you did not exactly follow the route of the boy trying to help you.  Though you are soaked, at least the people in the fields get a good laugh!
• And then imagine… going to a baptism at the RICHEST guy’s house- in your WORST outfit… while everyone else is dressed to the nines….. !

So anytime you are having a hard day or are stressed out, just think, you COULD have become suddenly stupid in Burkina Faso!!!!!!!!!!!!