1. Your neighbor is housing the municipality's construction equipment in their front porch and the house you live behind has given the construction crew the key to the gate so they can access your water source....
2. The bags of cement are being stored in front of your living room window.
3. You can't order gas for your apartment because nobody can tell you the address, even the people who live in the house. You decide to call a friend who used to live in that apartment - she gives you some sort of address and when you finally get the gas people to believe that is an address, they arrive within 5 minutes on a motorcycle... beeping with the tank of gas strapped to the back.
4. You realized that instead of contributing to the ever growing trash problem of the world, you can feed the chickens across the street all of your food waste. In fact, the woman sitting in a chair outside of that house (who is never not in the chair) thanks you every-time you bring over your scraps. At first, when she called out to you one day you were scared she was upset about the trash dumping plan you had been executing for a week... only to find she wanted to show you exactly the best location for the drop-off.
5. This process of getting the food waste out of the house also has solved many of your fly and other insect problems.
6. You don't want to get spiders out of your house in hopes that they are assisting you with the mosquito patrol.
7. When you go to the local High School, it always looks like lunch recess at any time of day. As in, there are always bunches of students not in classes.... just playing on their phones or walking around. Apparently it is a normal scheduling thing. I don't know how anyone can focus. Also, there are several classrooms with students who have teachers that just didn't come.... Like when I was sick... my students were just all by themselves. And that is totally normal. The craziest thing is they seem for the most part well behaved.
8. After show at the theatre, the members of the audience all kiss you goodnight as they walk out.
9. You have to talk about what to do if the power goes out before you start the play... because it is raining.
10. Your English spelling is really being affected by Spanish, but you are still an English teacher..... You also loose the ability to recognize the incorrect use of prepositions like "in" as illustrated in weirdness number 1. "In the front porch..." Really?
*It is interesting to see how things I noticed as odd at first are now so normal and still, there are different odd things all the time.
Yes, oddities are a way of normalcy there...so it seems.
ReplyDeleteFunny none the less. (what a strange expression?).