You Know You're a Peace Corps Volunteer When...

You know you're a PCV in Lesotho when:

1) You spend an inordinate amount of time trying to convince people that you don't walk around with pockets full of candy.

2) It freaks you out when you hear Basotho refer to you by your American name.

3) You can successfully bucket bath with less than 2 liters of water... And feel perfectly clean.

4) You walk everywhere... And chances are, with a giant overloaded backpack.

5) You can determine the season based on your tan lines and the type of insects living in your house.

6) You visit other PCV's and find yourself jealously admiring their latrine.

7) You think refrigerating eggs, cheese, and mayonnaise is madness.

8) You can't remember that foreign language you took for 5+ years in high school and college... And when you try to, it always comes out in Sesotho anyway.

9) You understand that your feet are the most important part of your body to take care of.

10) You would do unspeakable things for a margarita.

11)  You hoard trash to use as teaching aids and classroom supplies.

12) You'd rather shave your head than haul the water to wash your hair.

13) Starting your day at 5am and going to bed at 8pm no longer seems ridiculous.

14) A wild Friday night means using the last of your precious computer battery to watch an episode of Modern Family.

15) Your social life ends when your the solar power for your phone battery runs out.

16) You can sing along to famu music.

17) You are willing to physically fight bo-Me for control of the window on a taxi.

18) You'd be willing to, and occasionally do, travel more two hours on public transport just to buy cheese.

19) You think it's weird if your personal space ISN'T violated while on public transport.

20) You love rain, and talk about it incessantly.

21) You see a white person and want to ask them where they're from and why they're here.

22) Writing letters by hand is a legitimate and highly utilized form of communication.

23) You can't imagine what you used to need unlimited WIFI for.

24) You have full conversations with your cat.

25) You lie awake in bed at night during thunderstorms, praying lightning doesn't set your grass roof on fire.

26) You think rental cars are for travelers that are pansies and can't handle public transport.

27) People speak to you in English... You respond in Sesotho.

28) You think the person who invented the shower doesn't get enough credit for his contribution to humanity.

29) You find yourself peeing and bathing in a bucket, while other PCVs are in the same room.

30) You eat papa and morroho with your hands.