This week went by SO fast! (literally and figuratively). We have learned a lot about the transportation here. The only speeds are fast, faster, slam on breaks, and OH MY GOSH WE'RE GONNA HIT THEM! Laura and I have actually learned to like the driving here. It's like your own personal roller coaster. Life sure isn't boring here! Between avoiding pot holes the size of Rhode Island and playing real life Frogger in traffic ( by the way Laura just asked what's Frogger...) you certainly get a work out. So far we like riding the bus and taking taxi rides (but only in the back seat...). The 1st and only bus ride we have taken so far had us laughing so hard we decided we would need to wear Depends for the next ride! And yes it's true, there are no seat belts. One requirement of living in UB is having a working horn on your car though. It's like a domino effect here. Once one car blows its horn, about a million others do too and you can never really know what it is they are honking at until you realize it is because you are the slow American looking petrified in the middle of the road! We have learned NOT to hesitate or you will not cross the road until a group of natives kind of pushes you along. You're doing your silent scream as you run in your sensible tennis shoes while next to you is a Mongolian woman in her 4 inch stilettos calmly walking across the street. We also learned that you CANNOT walk on the manhole covers as they are the home to many homeless people. We actually saw a man go down into one today and were in such shock that we forgot to take a picture.
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