garbage

is one thing that drives me crazy here but its a cultural thing so i have to deal with it. there is no garbage pickup in the rural areas which is most of the country and everywhere i've been i see people droppig their garbage wherever they stand. all garbage is burned here, batteries, plastic, everything, and if you don't throw your garbage on the ground it means you have to take responsibility for disposing of it. and no one wants that or does that. if you leave it it will blow into someone else's yard (just like the leaves at home). the poorer families with dirt floors literally drop everything where they stand. i go to josefa's house and there may be orange peels all over the floor, as well as everything else. then they just sweep the dirt off dirt floor to a pile outside and burn it. the boys here don't throw everything on the floor but it annoys - surprises me when they leave everything on the floor when they place such high importance on personal cleanliness. the teachers are trying to change things at the school with signs all over the place.