How You Know You Live In A Small Village

11.   Boys pee on your toilet seat because they are used to latrines.

22.  The entire village runs out of milk and bread.

33.  Cows, goats and chickens routinely walk by the classroom windows and are chased out of the school gate by learners.

44.  The village’s taxi driver buys you a live chicken for dinner just because he likes you (don’t ask).

55.  Most of your male learners are herd boys after school.

66.  Soccer and netball are always played barefoot.

77.  Some kids walk for over an hour to come to school, yet each grade has only one class.

88.  Babies cry hysterically when they see you because they aren’t used to white people.

99.  Since everyone knows you, people will stop the village’s sole taxi when they see you coming a block away in town.

110. Everyone has known your name (or at least your African name) since your second week in the village.

111. Daily, kids give you their parents’ cell phones to charge, because most people don’t have electricity.

112. You can run to the main road and back (~5k) on the only road in and out of your village and see no cars (besides hospital vehicles, only a handful of people have cars).