STRANGE THINGS YOU CAN FIND ON AN UPPER STREET

One thing that you can't notice when you live in the UP is that there are soooo many wild animals of any type and size: skunks, porcupines, hares, marmots, beavers, deer, bears, wolves, squirrels, ducks, goose, ferrets, turkeys and lots more. But there's a problem with all these animals: in the UP there are streets. And cars too. And the result of all of these may be just one: road kills. Every single time you are going somewhere by car you see at least one dead animals in the middle on the road. Sometimes is nothing scary because the animals killed is just a squirrel but other times may be very disgusting or horrible to see. When there's a dead skunk on the road you can smell his horrible and disgusting perfume for miles (one buddy was attached by a skunk on his eye and the smell was so strong that for the firs thirty minutes I wasn't able to breath without crying and two weeks later our house still smell of that horrible and disgusting perfume). Others time you may found a bigger animals like a deer, which is the worst road kill possible. Last day there was a deer killed on the road and my host sister said it was veer bad to see because there were deer parts everywhere on the road. Fortunately I didn't see the dead deer but the huge stain of blood on the road was enough. Today we went to Marquette and on the road there was another dead deer, but this time there were no blood stain.
The really funny things is that when I told to my host mom that there are road kill everywhere here she laughed and said: " oh god! You're right! But you want to know something? I'm so used to see it that I never thought this may be weird and horrible for someone else". Oh yes Liza, this is more horrible than what you think. The only road kill we have in Italy are some cats sometimes and everybody is so sorry and sad when we see one.
But road kill is just the first weird thing that you can find here. The second one are definitely houses. Yes, houses. We were drive back home some days ago and I suddenly start screaming. My host mom was so confused at the fist and later she told me that her thought was "why is she so surprised? Has she never seen cars come on the other side on the road? Has she never see traffic?". But then I go "is that a HOUSE?" There was a big tir that was carry a house, a real house. I was shocked and amused at the same time. I have never seen a house carried by a tie on a normal street. But than my host mom goes "oh no, that's not a house! It's just half of it, the other half is some miles away!"
That's the kind of things you can found here and that's why I'm so in love with this country!