Bus cleanliness standards are completely non-existent.
People really aren’t joking when they say that you will get proposed to numerous times.
Fruit is just more vibrant – the colors, the taste, the smell. Fruit in the States will never be the same.
The phrase “personal space” has no translation in Swahili.
One can make the most perfect bread over hot coals.
It’s hot. ‘Nuff said.
Rain in Africa is just as magical as you might imagine.
Doing team time outside at your guest house welcomes a lot of unexpected visitors, like the boy from the corner store who speaks no English but sits in on all your feedback, making things a little awkward and a lot hilarious.
White people cannot dance. Especially this white person.
Africa actually does have food, water and electricity, contrary to what you may have imagined.
The color of your skin cannot prevent you from becoming family within a matter of days.
And…
Getting all your hair chopped off at a very sketchy barber shop with only a pair of men's clippers and very dull scissors really DOES beat the heat:
