Things That Have Become Normal

•  Entire families in the back of a pick-up truck with their chuchos (dogs).
• 4 people on a moto.

• 23 people in a 12 passenger van.
• Being sold things through the window of restaurants while you're eating.
• The bus assistant riding on the steps of the bus with the door open while whipping around the turns on the highway.

• People riding on the ladder on the back of the bus holding a bicycle.
• Being offered shoe shine, flip flop shine, belt shine, and weed all in one breathe.
• Security guards in restaurants, banks, and delivery trucks with machine guns.
• Brushing my teeth with bottled water.
• Fireworks at all hours of the day...and night.
• Throwing toilet paper in the trash can.
• Having vegetable soup and chocolate cake for breakfast.
• Seeing a herd of cows strolling down the street.

• My 5 year old brother drinking coffee at 8:00 at night.
• Drinking pop out of a bag with a straw.
• Taking a shower and getting electrocuted; however, I have not experienced this.
• Car alarms at all hours of the day, often times set off by fire crackers.
• Men, and women, walking around with machetes. 
• The electricity randomly going off for several minutes.