ONLY IN AFRICA....
...would you have lizards living in your bathroom and behind your curtains
...would you have excitable small children follow you when you walk through villages
...would you get ants almost an inch long crawling up your leg
...would you be sitting on someone's knee in a bus on the way to town, or be one of five people sitting across three seats
...would you get people shouting out of car windows at you, asking whether you're married yet
...would you have to wait several minutes to drive through a gate in the evening because the guard has gone to sleep
...would you see more Manchester United stickers in cars than you do in Britain
...would you have someone ask you, over dinner, about how much you weigh
...would you have a policeman stop you in the car and ask you for some money to buy a soda
...would you get mosquito bites through your socks after only being out of bed for three minutes
...would you be asked to go to the front of a church and sing a song for everyone if you're a visitor
...would you pay the equivalent of 80p to get a new watch battery, and have it fitted on the spot
...would you make a very slight slip of the tongue when trying to ask for a knife and fork at the dinner table and end up accidentally saying the word for a certain anatomical feature that should really not be mentioned in polite company
...would you have a woman suggest that her newborn baby boy could be your fiancee when he's a bit older
...would you have your Swahili teacher ask you if you live on Downing Street (a joke, I think...)
...would you have bananas growing in your back garden
...would you have people in shops call your name out across the street when you pass, even when you've only been in there once before
...would you have your phone service provider send you a text to say Congratulations! Because you've just topped up, you've earned 20 minutes of free talk time... to use between the hours of midnight and 6am
Feel free to add, if you have any experience of Africa!
