Top ten

Just for fun....
The top 10 signs that we are not in Kansas anymore (or Tennessee)...

#10 Every lunch and dinner includes curried rice and chicken.

#9 Breakfast may include, along with an egg, a serving of cooked cauliflower, red cabbage and carrots, hot spicy peanut butter, with guava or beetroot juice to drink, and hot tea with milk from the water buffalo.

#8 The locals here in southern India drink by pouring the liquids into their wide open mouths without touching their lips to the glass, cup, or bottle. They eat their rice with the right hand--no utensils needed.

#7 There are geckos on the walls of the dining room and bathroom. (The only thing more disconcerting than finding one on the bathroom wall at night is going back in there and not finding it.)

#6 The non-verbal head shake meaning "yes" is a quick wiggle of the head from side to side, as moving the ears slightly toward the shoulders back and forth very quickly.
(I can see some of you trying this!)

#5 Women do laundry by washing it out on a large flat rock.

#4 Camel races on TV.

#3 The bowl of fried fish at dinner includes the head.

#2 The city newspaper has six pages of classified ads where parents advertise requesting a wife for their son or a husband for their daughter. Dowries are listed.

And the number one reason you know you are not in Tennessee anymore...
#1 Your host orders lamb for the special graduation luncheon the following day and the herd arrives on the hoof and is grazing outside. At least we know it will be fresh!

- Laurel Sewell