*Day 5 of 31 days of Traveling & Living Overseas with Kids
*All stories are true.
While I have settled into “normal” life here,
I also realize there are some oddities as well.
-Driving on highways with open bed trucks and animals inside is very normal here.
-Creating your own driving lane in any sort of traffic or road is typical and almost expected.
-Walking into most shopping centers and grocery stores means walking through metal detectors.
-Climbing on old ruins isn’t shunned.
-Car horns honking for a multitude of reasons, angry or happy or not.
-Most “parks” have broken playground equipment and usually broken glass everywhere,
even in the nicer parts of town.
-You must deal with the month of Ramadan,
where you are not being allowed to eat, drink or chew gum in public or in your car.
-Most hotels aren’t worried about fire codes or how many is in our family.
We’ve had a room with 1 King size bed only
and we’ve stayed at a hotel with just 2 single beds & 1 double before.
Square footage is usually quite tight and adjoining rooms are unheard of.
-Raw eggs are sold in carts on the streets in 100* weather.
-Stray cats are commonplace even in restaurants.
(Please note my husband trying to ward off a cat from consuming our dinner.)
-5 times a day hearing the Moslem’s Call to Prayer blast through the air from local mosques.
-It’s very normal to have child beggars approach you when you get out of the car.
-Your kids get kissed, held and photographed all day long.
(We’re thankful we aren’t famous!)
What wonderful life lessons your children are learning by serving and by seeing how other cultures live!
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