{"id":352,"date":"2011-08-19T09:55:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T13:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/?p=352"},"modified":"2011-08-19T09:55:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T13:55:45","slug":"2-years-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/2011\/08\/19\/2-years-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Years in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I read a post from a fellow missionary wife that I enjoyed.\u00a0 She was talking about the things she has learned (or not) in the three months that she’s lived in Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 So it got me to thinking…what have I learned (or not)?\u00a0 So here’s my list (just for fun)….<\/p>\n

I have learned:<\/span><\/address>\n
*that some people don’t sweat that much<\/address>\n
*other people sweat MORE THAN you can imagine<\/address>\n
*everyone<\/span> stinks when living here (unless they JUST took a shower) and you just have to ‘get over’ worrying about it<\/address>\n
*there are A LOT<\/strong> of different kinds of fungus that can\u00a0grow on a person’s body<\/address>\n
*just about anything can be cooked from scratch (that means without<\/strong>canned or boxed ingred.s too!)<\/address>\n
*I do not<\/strong><\/span> like cooking from scratch all the time.<\/address>\n
*When you go shopping, you better have pleanty of time…it once took me 45mins just to get through the line at a store.\u00a0 Oh, and there were only 4<\/strong>people in front of me…and no, they did not have an unordarinary amout of stuff either.\u00a0 It’s just the way it is.\u00a0<\/address>\n
*I enjoy flicking gekkos off our screen windows.\u00a0 (There’s just something about seeing them flying into the grass!)<\/address>\n
*how to not care if there are just a few ants in my drink\/food…it just adds a little protein.<\/address>\n
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I have not<\/strong> learned:<\/span><\/address>\n
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*how to make all the yummy things I want to eat, from scratch<\/address>\n<\/address>\n
*how to catch the slimy little frogs that come in our house (I make the kids get them for me)<\/address>\n
*how to go back to sleep without killing the GIANT cockroach I just saw (what if it climbs onto our bed?!)<\/address>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -One night I got up to use the restroom and saw a cockroack.\u00a0 It was HUGE!\u00a0 Of course I didn’t have any shoes on.\u00a0 So I run to get one to kill it.\u00a0 It runs from me & actually makes it under the bed.\u00a0 Unfortunally, we have a couple of things under there and I can’t get to it.\u00a0 So I’m shinning my flashlight all around, moving pillows and climbing over Joel (who is still sleeping).\u00a0 He eventually wakes up and asks me what’s going on.\u00a0 I explain the problem and he says I need to just forget it.\u00a0 So out of love & devotion for my dear hubby, I give up.\u00a0 But I can’t sleep.\u00a0 I end up having to tuck my sheet over my head and all around me in order to fall asleep…I just couldn’t bear the thought of that thing making it’s way up on the bed!\u00a0 If he (the cockroach) did make it up there, he could have Joel- NOT Me!<\/address>\n
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Giant Cockroach- just imagine it's length being the size of your pointer finger and the width being two fingers...I forgot to put something next to it to show the actual size.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/address>\n
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The other day I read a post from a fellow missionary wife that I enjoyed.\u00a0 She was talking about the things she has learned (or not) in the three months that she’s lived in Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 So it got me to thinking…what have I learned (or not)?\u00a0 So here’s my list (just for fun)…. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}