- you can buy 1 cigarette at a time
- you can buy gasoline by the wine bottle full
- mail is delivered to the Markala post office 1/week. There is no home delivery
- the police generally do not have cars (what speed limit?)
- Africa will cease to be a rural continent by 2030
- One child every 5 seconds is dying of malnutrition in the world
- stairs are not all the same size. As you walk up/down a set of stairs, different stairs are often different depths and heights. Watch your step!
- During conferences, photographers will wonder around taking your picture, then try to sell the picture to you during breaks.
- the tops over open gutters are regularly missing. What could look to be a sidewalk can suddently disapper, leaving you a drop off of 2-4 feet. Beware, especially in the dark
- currency bills are different sizes and colors. This allows the many people who cannot read to tell what denomination a bill is
- more and more Muslim women in England are choosing to wear a veil in order to demonstrate their own variety of feminism. One reason they cite is a reaction against what they consider excessive revealing of women in the west.