Sugar

Today in a span of 4 hours I drank (some would say 'I was forced to drink') 2 glass bottles of coke, 2 glasses of tea and 6 cups of strong coffee.

No big deal unless you realize that when they make tea and coffee they put sugar in it while it's on the fire. Then they actually fill your glass half full of sugar, literally, and pour the tea or coffee over it...and that's after I specifically request to have 'sugar simple' or if I really want to make them laugh I call it 'white girl sugar'.

Did you know that it's actually physically possible to become high off of sugar? When we finally finished our visit I felt like I had just spent several hours in a room where the walls were being painted and someone forgot to open the windows. It was a bit ridiculous.

And the local people wonder why the most common disease here is diabetes. If I ever end up having diabetes I'm blaming it on the Sandbox. I think that every time I get sick for the next few years I'll blame it on the Sandbox. No reason really except for that I know that I've got quite a few things just hiding out in my body waiting for the right moment to remind me of all that time I spent in Africa.