1) Getting a rental car with a driver is much easier than actually trying to get a taxi. The taxi smells funny and at times will randomly break down.
2) Buy a crate to put soda bottles in. It is half the price of aluminum cans.
3) Gas is the same price no matter which gas station you go to. So that means no shopping around for the best price.
4) Foreigners will never get the same price locals get on items. Even if you bought the same items at the same place with the same guy yesterday.
5) Detol and bleach combo does not keep ants from coming back; it only kills the ones that are there at the moment.
6) Calling a person who has a different cell phone provider is more expensive than calling someone who lives in another country. This is why everyone carries 2-3 cell phones (that’s how many providers there are here)
7) Just because there’s 92% humidity doesn’t mean it has to feel horrible outside, sometimes you just can’t feel the humidity.
8) If you don’t want to hang out clean clothes it will be sunny. As soon as you start hanging them out it rains. Murphy’s Law.
9) Even people that have lived in Sierra Leone all their life are still afraid of rain.
10) A stabilizer is cheaper than a fan, so you might as well buy both at the beginning so you don’t go buy your second fan and first stabilizer.
11) The pretest views are up the mountains…that is where the roughest roads are too.
12) There are so many more places to go and see in Sierra Leone that even the Sierra Leoneans know their self. It is up to you to research and find these places.
13) Cleaning the floors with gasoline/water mixture helps to keep the bugs away. Yes the smell lingers for several hours but it’s better than always having unwelcomed guests.
14) The best beaches are a drive away. They are the best because the locals can’t go there (due to not having a 4x4 car).
15) Go to a village and you feel like a caged animal. Children and adults crowd around you as though they have never seen a foreigner (which maybe they haven’t).
2) Buy a crate to put soda bottles in. It is half the price of aluminum cans.
3) Gas is the same price no matter which gas station you go to. So that means no shopping around for the best price.
4) Foreigners will never get the same price locals get on items. Even if you bought the same items at the same place with the same guy yesterday.
5) Detol and bleach combo does not keep ants from coming back; it only kills the ones that are there at the moment.
6) Calling a person who has a different cell phone provider is more expensive than calling someone who lives in another country. This is why everyone carries 2-3 cell phones (that’s how many providers there are here)
7) Just because there’s 92% humidity doesn’t mean it has to feel horrible outside, sometimes you just can’t feel the humidity.
8) If you don’t want to hang out clean clothes it will be sunny. As soon as you start hanging them out it rains. Murphy’s Law.
9) Even people that have lived in Sierra Leone all their life are still afraid of rain.
10) A stabilizer is cheaper than a fan, so you might as well buy both at the beginning so you don’t go buy your second fan and first stabilizer.
11) The pretest views are up the mountains…that is where the roughest roads are too.
12) There are so many more places to go and see in Sierra Leone that even the Sierra Leoneans know their self. It is up to you to research and find these places.
13) Cleaning the floors with gasoline/water mixture helps to keep the bugs away. Yes the smell lingers for several hours but it’s better than always having unwelcomed guests.
14) The best beaches are a drive away. They are the best because the locals can’t go there (due to not having a 4x4 car).
15) Go to a village and you feel like a caged animal. Children and adults crowd around you as though they have never seen a foreigner (which maybe they haven’t).
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