21 Jan Blog Challenge Responses Round Up #5

The Prompt

Challenge #5 = I Never Knew What surprised you about your host country when you first arrived? What did you never known until you visited?

Along with the prompt, participants also received a number of creative ideas for different ways to approach their response. After a week to work on their responses, we’ve rounded up their published posts in one place for you here.

Highlights

For today’s series of higlights, we’re focusing especially on creative and catchy titles. In the world of blogging, a post title can be the difference between someone clicking to read your post or ignoring it. Check out some of these great titles:

• 10 Ways to Use Heaven (Beyond Radio Codes)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mozambique
• 5 Community Codes We Never Knew About Morocco… And 1 We Realized About America
• Amazing what a piece of cloth can do
• If you drop your keys…you better stomp on them three times

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Posts

• The Things I Never Knew Prompt #5 is “I Never Knew”and this is a big one. There are so many things I have learned over the past year, it’s hard to narrow them down into…
• If you drop your keys…you better stomp on them three times The things I never knew until I moved to Mongolia. This post will mostly consist of superstitions and other cultural nuances that I have learned through various experiences.Mongolians have a…
• 5 Community Codes We Never Knew About Morocco… And 1 We Realized About America Before we arrived in Morocco, we were told that Moroccans are hospitable and truly value community. We thought we understood what that meant—but it turns out, we had no idea….
• Our Surprises Lots of things have surprised us about life in Morocco.  It’s hard to pick just a few to write about, so we decided to go with some of the most complicated…
• 6 Normal Things From Life Abroad When you move to a different country you become immune to many “normal things”…
• Anything Goes Señora: “I hate women’s work. It’s better that you don’t marry.” Me: “That’s why whoever I do marry and I will split the chores evenly. We will both work and…
• Ethiopia: Who Knew? There were many things I didn’t know about Ethiopia before I came here. Like, most things. I did roughly zero research about my new home of 27 months. I was…
• Expect the Unexpected: Things I Didn’t Know Before Coming to Ethiopia #BloggingAbroad Prior to moving to Ethiopia, I had visited a few other third world developing countries.  One of which was Uganda (another African country just slightly south of…
• 5 Foods We Never Knew We Loved Before Moldova There are so many important life lessons we’ve gained serving as Peace Corps Volunteers in the beautiful Republic of Moldova. But today we’re going to talk with our stomachs instead…
• The One Thing I Wish I had Realized Before Benin So last month, I’m sure you noticed that I’m actually posting a little more than usual. Mostly this is as a result of my participation in a…
• Things I find in the Kitchen Life in another country is always interesting, always different and never dull. The northern coast of Peru is no exception. What are a few of the sights and sounds that…
• 9 Things I Didn’t Know About Madagascar Before I Lived Here 1. Madagascar isn’t all beaches and lemurs. In reality, the world’s fourth largest island is a very diverse country with…
• Things I Never Knew I Never Knew I’ve been in Samoa for over 15 months now and things have started to blur together. It feels like I’ve always known how to tie my lavalava, kill bugs expertly,…
• Four Lesotho Reality Checks Before moving to Lesotho, I was intentionally open-minded, setting very few expectations for what my life and Peace Corps service would be like. I am, however, human, so a few…
• I never knew… There are always new things you learn when you visit a new country. This post talk about a few things I never knew about Benin before coming here.  First an…
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mozambique This time around for the fifth Blogging Challenge we are asked about things we never knew about our host countries before arriving. Read below for the story: If you had…
• That Fishbowl Feeling …Gazing through the glass, I can see people moving about. There’s a farmer on a donkey making his way to the finca. Children with backpacks make their way through the…
•  10 Ways to Use Heaven (Beyond Radio Codes) This entry’s theme: I never knew (aka what cultural aspects we were unaware before arriving in country…so for me almost everything)…
• I Never Knew All it takes to make you think, man, what did I know? is trying to think about things you never knew. So what didn’t I know before I came to Moldova?…
• Thats Happened I have lived in Madagascar for about 1 ½ years now and things that were once weird or strange to me at arrival have now become just part of my normality…
• Amazing what a piece of cloth can do. I never knew what an important mark capolanas are in the Mozambican cultural.  A capolana is a cotton cloth about 2 meters by 1 meter…
• Joy lies in the discovery By amysage27
• 10 Things I Never Knew About South Korea By Lianne Bronzo
• Never Have I Ever: The Macedonian Edition By Rebekah
• Mexican-American-Malagasy By Gabriela Ortiz
• A (Wo)man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama By Kara