I wouldn’t rate this as my strong suit (a quick adaptation to anything), yet I can see that I have done it because it is inevitable. You don’t realize, until you return somewhere familiar, how you’ve grown accustomed to something else.
Weather and cold temperature aside, there are so many things I’ve noticed about my homeland that I had forgotten in a new one:
- The water out of the tap can be extremely cold (Senegal: it is always lukewarm to blazing hot)
- So many cars – especially SUV’s, barely any people walking around (Senegal: the streets are flooded with people at all hours)
- Coffee shops on every second corner!! (Senegal: corner shops/mini marts abound)**
- Flat, manageable hair (Senegal: moist air always has my hair strutting its stuff)
- Blue jeans and sneakers as the dress of choice (Senegal: tradition dress and bright colors)
- Facial hair on older men (Senegal: none really)
