I wonder why…

…the man on the bike that just passed my house has a car battery strapped to the bike. Does he think it will help him go faster? Or is he carrying it to a car that needs it?
…our neighbors below us play their music so loudly. They don’t go very far from the house and so don’t need it all the way to the bakery. I wonder if they know it gives me a headache.
…the school day is so short. But I guess it accommodates all the students. They have three sessions a day: 7-12, 12:30-4:30, 6-10 from what I can tell.
…my housekeeper turns Joél’s white socks inside out to dry and not our colored shirts. She initially turned everything inside out, but now generally only the socks.
…the acacia trees lining the streets in almost every town have been pruned so much that they only have branches and no leaves. Almost every town has trimmed their trees. Granted they grow back quickly and the trees that were trimmed here in Gondola in March now have leaves, but in a society that loves shade? And why did they trim them so severely just before the president arrived in town?
…our neighbors always ask us where we are going. Do we live such a different life that it’s interesting to find out where we are going? Do they think we are so strange that they wonder what we do all the time? Is it a way to start conversations and we’re so dense we don’t know what they are asking?
…the men at church really encourage the women and youth get together and on Sundays perform a song and dance but barely meet together themselves. Isn’t the purpose of meeting for edification of the church, so when each group meets and shares what they did, it edifies everyone not just certain ones?
…the men working on the rail road tracks are dressed in bright yellow coveralls. Does it help a train conductor to see the workers? Doesn’t yellow show dirt easily?
…many people have roosters. Do chickens need a rooster in order to produce eggs? Are other people annoyed by the roosters crowing whenever they feel like it (all day and all night)?
…it seems like women at church whose husbands do not attend are able to talk more than women whose husbands do attend. It almost seems like a disadvantage to have one’s husband at church (in terms of equality).
…kids who have never seen a camera are drawn to them and automatically smile.
…many women wear two skirts at the same time. Generally they wear a skirt and then cover it with a capulana, sometimes two if they need somewhere to put the capulana that they carried a child with.
…so many kids gather around us when we drive into the communities where we are working with sand dams. Our colleagues say that it is because of the cars, but if it were, why do they linger so long and then the adults come and watch us?
…I am so bothered by people always watching me or asking me what I am doing?