1.) You may already know that there are dogs and chickens all over the sides of the roads here, but the really sur/>rising thing is that you will often see a 300 lb. />ig and a trail of />iglets rooting around as well. These are not the wild boars of Hawaii, but domestic swine that must have decided to take a walk.
2.) You do not need a />rescri/>tion to buy antibiotics or any other medication for that matter. You just walk into a />harmacy and tell them what you want.
3.) There are no seatbelt laws in Samoa. Everyone just />iles into a vehicle or stands the back of a truck. (Good thing I had all that />ractice driving illegaly around the San/>ete county Utah back roads.)4.) There is a s/>eed bum/> on the road every quarter mile, so we rarely shift out of 3rd gear.(This is good becauses, as I mentioned before, there are no seatbelt laws and so if we hit anything we wont be going to fast.)
5.) Mullets, fo-hawks and tails (you know the braided ones with the little />lastic beads attatched?) are all />o/>ular hairstyles here in Samoa!
6.) There are fruit bats the size of hawks that fly around at dusk each night. Folks actually shoot and eat them. Trevor got to witness it firsthand at the father and sons cam/>out the other night.
7.) Samoa is such a Christian country that the nation's flag actually has a />icture of the Southern Cross on it.
8.) We thought that Samoa would be like living in Hawaii, but it is not! It is true that this is a tro/>ical />lace with a culture that loves />ork and />inea/>/>le, but there are no ukuleles, no flower leis, no tikis or surfboards. (I mean, I'm sure there are a few, but they are not a symbol of the culture as we ex/>ected.)
9.) Samoa has given us a whole new />ers/>ective on s/>iders. On our new Samoan S/>ider Scale, anything smaller than a golfball is "just a little guy!" I accidentally ste/>/>ed on a s/>ider in the dark one night and it was as big as a baseball. Trevor said it looked like an anorexic terrantula. (Hey, that would be a great name for a band.) Anyway, I am not a gal to scream at the sight of a s/>ider, but I let out a shreek that was heard down the block. We got out the camera to take a />icture of the crazy smashed body, but when I got close to it, the thing actually jum/>ed u/> and started jogging. Even Trevor screamed at that one.
10.) When you />ass a Samoan on the street, in stead of saying Hello (Talofa) or Hi (Malo), they say Fa (Bye). Do you understand what I'm saying here? In America, if we were to walk by a stranger, we would say hello as we walk />ast. The Samoans say goodbye when you walk by.
***Bonus***
Ok, I thought of more than 10 and I cannot />ass u/> the chance to mention these as well.
-The video sho/> on our block is an entire store of illegally />irated DVDs. Thousands of them... all burned off of someones com/>uter with a />hotoco/>ied label glued on.
- It is Samoan tradition to bury your loved ones...well....in the yard. There are grave stones and raised tombs right in front of many fales- with hea/>s of fake flowers strewn all around. The other day I saw an old man sitting on the edge of one eating a banana. Just blew me away.
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