Never Have I Ever...

....Until I moved to St Vincent and the Grenadines

• Ate so many bananas, plantains
• Known there were different types of bananas, and have a favorite kind
• Eaten a fresh mango or guava
• Ate chunks
• Hitchhiked
• Had a cavity
• Shared my house with a family of bats and named said bats
• Washed my laundry by hand
• Partied literally around the clock, multiple times
• Hiked a volcano
• Had a stranger zip up the zipper on my dress while walking on the sidewalk
• Swam with sea turtles
• Had to cook literally all my meals
• Not worn a seat belt while riding in a car
• Been the center of attention because of my skin color
• Been referred to as Whitey, Miss, Teach, and a slew of other cat calls
• Been proposed to by total strangers (or ever for that matter)
• Eaten eggs that weren’t refrigerated
• Eaten eggs that were laid by chickens walking around my yard
• Openly walked around the streets with a bottle of beer
• Whined (type of dance)
• Peed when I want, where I want, no matter what
• Seen people (men, women, children) pee anywhere they feel like
• Lived only a few miles from the ocean
• Not stopped sweating
• Used so much OFF! Bug spray in such a short time period
• Slept in a bug net
• Had a shower that drained directly into my backyard
• Been excited by the simple things
• Appreciated life so much
• Slept on a 3 inch foam mattress, and subsequently realized how sweet a real mattress is
• Had such difficulty understanding different accents
• Not have perfect grammar
• Been away from my family for so long
• Lived anywhere even remotely tropical
• Spent Christmas day sweating
• Not spent a holiday without family
• Held complete strangers' babies
• Been offered a baby/small child from a stranger
• Been looked at strange for putting on a seatbelt
• Bathed twice a day every day
• Fist bump with a Filipino catholic priest
• Had in depth conversations about abortion with a priest
• Ride in the back of a truck
• Gone to a holy communion
• Gone to a Pentecostal, Methodist, Anglican or Baptist church
• Simultaneously cared so much and so little about what others think of me and what I look like
• Tried to fit in
• Thought 70F was cold
• Collected a stool sample
• Bought an entire fish-scales, head, everything in tact
• Eaten an entire fish
• Bought a fish from a truck driving around my neighborhood with an old refrigerator as a freezer
• Scrubbed a concrete “yard” to clean it
• Walked around the capital in nothing but a bikini
• Thrown paint on strangers/have strangers throw paint on me, and have it be ok.
• Picked tons of fruit from my yard and ate it
• Bargained with old ladies for my produce
• Bought sugar, flour, milk, beans, etc. in bulk in unlabeled knotted plastic bags
• Drank milk from a can
• Drank powdered milk
• Eaten a strictly raw diet for 6 weeks straight
• Not been able to cook for 6 weeks because I ran out of gas
• Not been able to get gas because the company was on strike
• Not been able to buy sugar because the country ran out of money to import it
• Owned a dog
• Seen/owned puppies that were literally just born
• Had wall paper on my floors
• Bought bags of chicken parts (necks, backs, feet, etc.)
• Woken up to find a dead chicken on my porch
• Used the rain as a valid excuse as to why I was late/didn’t go to my job
• Bathed outside using a bucket in the rain
• Lived in a foreign country
• Enjoyed reading
• Lived alone
• Had brown water
• Had no water for days at a time
• Taught a student how to read
• Such great health care and basically my very own doctor who responds to me instantly
• Eaten ants and not cared
• Boiled water on the stove so that I could take a "hot" shower
• Been so up to date with world and US news
• Experienced an earthquake