You Know You're In Tchad When...

You know you're in Tchad when...

• going braless is normal
• you don't brush your teeth for 3 days and people don't think it's weird
• you can't stop talking about food back home
• the only local plane taking off is the most exciting thing!
• you drive a moto at night that doesn't have a working headlight, so you use a dying headlamp or the light from your cell phone
  
• you're driving a moto at night that doesn't have a working headlight and the moto coming towards you doesn't have a working headlight either.
• your shower water has rice floating in it and smells like boule
• when drunk men or drunk horses run around celebrating...they don't even know what.
• you get a package that has new ziploc bags in them and you think they look nice
• it's 70 degrees outside and you're wrapped in a blanket
• you buy a dog for $5
• you buy a monkey for $4
• you see a picture of carpet and it takes your breath away
• you don't shower consistently (I won't say how many days) and it doesn't really bother you
• a 14 seater plane comes to Bere and it's the biggest plane anyone here has ever seen
• a mouse runs over your foot while you're squatting and it doesn't phase you.
• you pray you can eat the food, and then pray that you get sick so you don't have to
• the SMs talk about how much fun it would be to have malaria at the same time
• Matthew and I have a conversation on whether we think rice husks, rocks, or sand is better in food
• half our conversations consist of the consistency of our poop
• you can feel a fly chillin on your face but you don't swat at it because you know it will just come back
• your bed sheet, soaked in your body sweat, is the coolest place to lay down at  night
• a giant toad flopping by your bed doesn't bother you, but rather conjures up the thought, "good! he'll get rid of all the bugs!"
• profusely picking mango peelings out of your teeth is the norm, even in front of crowds of people
• you take a shower with all your clothes on because it's so hot outside!
• your finger is way up your nose digging for stuff and you're having a conversation and don't think twice
• sides A and B of your underwear just don't cut it
• we stand and talk to each other while one person is taking a dump
• there is poop on the side of the road
• you're so sick of eating the same thing everyday that you feed the local dog with it
  
• girls are all lined up taking a poop and you have to walk passed them
  
• calling someone fat is a compliment
  
• everyone takes showers together...like neighbors, church members, random people who say they're your friends
  
• goat brain is the local delicacy 
• people say Happy New Year in April
• you're floating in a cow poop infested river eating mangoes
  
• blowing up a goat like a balloon through a cut in it's foot is part of the preparation for the meal
• some of the best English speakers are drunk men
• everyone and their mom wants a gift from you
• bunches of kids come to your hut everyday to give you mangoes...just cause
• kids run over to you from wherever they are just to greet you
• strangers talk to you like you've been friends forever
• there's always time to lay on a mat and look at the millions of stars
• people love you more than anything else that they do
  
• you're so excited about leaving, but the thought of never coming home again hurts so bad

This is when you know you're in Tchad.