Missed photo ops

This one I did get a picture of

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes the moment passes too quickly and words are all that's left. Today's post features the "pictures I wish I'd gotten."

How to ride a bicycle: one day while riding in a taxi I came upon a young man on a bicycle. Now the fact that he was on a bicycle wasn't all that unusual. Nor the fact that he was standing on the seat. But instead of coasting along gently, he was being towed by... no, you probably won't guess... a motorbike, and at a rather break-neck speed too. I was too slow to get a picture of it, but I'm sure your imagination can see how it happened anyway.

Rice isn't just for weddings. The other day a lady came up to me and some friends and started pelting us with uncooked rice. At first I thought maybe it was a way to scare off evil spirits. But no, it seems that she was just a little crazy.

King of the mountain: On the way to my team leaders' house I go down a hill that's normally well-decorated with goat poo. I started to wonder just how many goats lived in the area, because I normally only saw a few at a time, but there seemed to be evidence of more. Well, one night I left my team leaders' house and looked up the hill. There next to the road were quite a few large rocks. And every single rock had a goat posed on it. There were other goats less fortunate who didn't have a rock to stand on. But it seemed like someone had decided to decorate the hillside with goat statues, none of the quite-alive goats were moving. I counted them-- more than 15 goats! Well, no wonder the road was a mess.

How to extricate yourself from a fight: This might have made a better home video than just a picture. As I was walking away from my house through the neighborhood recently I came upon a group of girls and young women. A couple of them were obviously in a big discussion (read: fight)-- yelling, gesturing vehemently, etc. Others were taking sides. Seeing as they weren't physically fighting, I chose to walk past. Well, one of the two grabbed me on the way past-- "Abby, I need to ask you a question! Let's walk together." She essentially was trying to use me as a body shield so she could leave the discussion! Unsurprisingly, it didn't work. The other girl called her on it and I ended up in the middle of their "discussion."  Oops.