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Tracey Henley's avatar

Oh Holly, I love this, thank you!

I think I might hv mentioned in a previous comment that I grew up in Saudi Arabia in the 60s and 70s. You perfectly capture the absurdities of Western expectations vs Global South realities of the time (even though you were in Africa 20 yrs later). Even now, when development has evened out some of the biggest differences*, the key to loving an expat life in the ME and Africa is a keen sense of the absurd and a willingness to roll with it. And the ability to respect the home culture.

(* highly subjective and fundamentally uneven, dare I say unfair)

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Bob Sassone's avatar

Wow, that Cape buffalo even *looks* like a jerk.

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