been a long time

Realized excuses for not updating a blog are not interesting (short version: busy and traveling a lot for work), so instead, here are some random bullet points. Noticed that a friend Matty G was in a facebook group called "You know you're Zambian when..." and because it's lunch hour, and I'm being unproductive, clicked on it. A couple of true classics*:
18. You only have 3 ingredients for relish (a side to eat with nsima) - tomato, onion and cooking oil.
20. You know how to fit 10 people into a sedan.
22. You bad-mouth the government, but never vote.
39. You know how to drive in neutral down a hill.
47. Your idea of a traffic jam is three cars waiting in line to bribe cops at a roadblock.

I have, in fact, learned how to drive neutral down a hill while in Zam, and it's come in handy (for some reason always overestimate the distance that a tank of fuel will cover) on multiple occasions. And while haven't fit 10 people in a sedan, have definitely fit 8 people and 2 fully-packed backpacking backpacks into my 2-door Rav4 (you're welcome, Peace Corps).

As for voting, I guess Zambia isn't so different from the U.S.


*Pet peeve when lists like this have tons of things which don't apply.