The things you would never think....

1. Fruit is served for breakfast, lunch and dinner, cake is served maybe once a week, therefore we eat at least 2 bananas each, a day.
2. When walking down the street, not only do people stare, but they yell out random words that they know in english!
3. In this particular town, it is very possible to go a day without seeing a car.
4. People take siestas. Everything shuts down from 12pm to like 330pm.
5. A ride from one end of the town to the other costs less than an ice cream bar.
6. The lowest bill they have is a 10, everything else is coins.
7. We had goat today for lunch.
8. Its so common to eat guinea pigs here, that they farm them.
9. It is more common to buy one or two cigarettes than a whole pack, and they will sell them to anyone.
10. Everyone is always late, because here, time is not money. Time is friendship.
11. Our primary source of entertainment here in the bishops home is a British priest, who we eat with. He is constantly making strange noises, and faces. And his accent in Spanish...is so funny.
12. In the market, when you walk past the meat section, people shout at you to buy their meat, as they wave it in your face!...Sometimes, we just wish we could say..."What in the world am I going to do with a chicken???"
13. It doesn't matter if you're taking a taxi 1 block down the road or 20 blocks, it always will cost 1 sol. (35 cents)
14. Days WITHOUT diarrhea are rare.
15. Kelli has eaten rice, every single day we've been in Peru....63 days.
16. We've never appreciated dryers more. Clothes lines stretch clothes, and your clothes don't end up smelling good.
17. Air conditioning or heating, absolutely does not exist in Chulucanas.
18. Power and water will randomly shut off. We've been advised to always know where a flashlight is. So far we've experienced this once.
19. It is very dusty and dirty here, because of this, if you wake up early enough, you will see many people sweeping the streets.
20. People have tiny monkeys as pets.
21. The nearest grocery store is 45 minutes away.
22. There are more donkeys here than cars.
23. There is only one ATM machine in the whole town.
24. There are no set prices except for ice cream and taxi rides...everything else is whatever the seller feels like. We have been charged two very different prices for the same exact thing, at the same exact place, by the same person!
25. We think people try to over charge us because they think we're rich Americans.
26. Here everyone seems to know everyone.
27. The bishop is like a celebrity.
28. It is hard to find candy or ice cream that isn't made by Nestle.
29. Apparently there is a large pool here, we have been told to avoid it, because most people use it for bathing.
30. At the home, there is always someone screaming, crying or clinging to us.