Thursday, July 30, 2015

I keep noticing all the things here that are different from home.  Not better or worse just different.  For instance, every kitchen  does not have a microwave,  mine does but I can only turn it on 30 seconds at a time because I don't know what all the various symbols mean and it has dials?  The refrigerators are much smaller than ours at home but I also notice that my produce tastes better because I have to shop for it more often.
   People as a whole are much more modest though those extremely short shorts are all the rage (and I mean be careful or your thong will show short)  The biggest fashion trend here are jumpsuits.  Short ones,  long ones, big flowy leg ones,  tight leg ones
  At the produce section of the grocery store you weigh your own produce - It displays what it weighs and what is is going to cost.  Then you push accept and the scale spits out a receipt which you stick on your produce bag and take to the check stand.  The streets are reasonably clean and the people are environmentally conscious.  I often see someone pick up a random piece of paper that isn't his and walk to the trash can and dispose of it. Most of the apartments have a main door that is locked - No prosteyliting here -  So the sister missionaries talk to anyone they can and start conversations on the street - whatever. Most sheets are not fitted.  Funny - that makes me think of how excited my mom was to get her first fitted sheets. I'm teaching Gale to make hospital corners correctly and he's doing well. I always bought flour in 25 or 50 lb bags when I had all my kids at home.  Here they buy little 2 lb bags.  I used a whole one and a little bit to make "Apple Pie Bars" for Family Home Evening last night.  Butter comes in 1 1/8 containers.They use lard or butter to cook with - Guess what I use.
II like their toilets better. (nuff said).  Many many bathrooms have a Bidet.
   There is a lot of graffiti on buildings.  ?Apparently there is a famous graffiti artist here and he did the whole side of a building and everyone is so proud. But there is alot done by those who never took art  Another thing if an old building is falling down they don't hesitate to build a beautiful new buildinng right next to it
We visited Tav more later ccomputer malfunction

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