-It doesn’t matter if you can sing well, as long as you can sing loudly.
-Frozen bananas dipped in chocolate are pure genius.
-When the water is out for a week, there is no shame in doing a celebration dance when it comes back on.
-Tomorrow at 7:00 am really means “sometime this week”
-A five minute taxi ride with seven people jammed into the backseat costs the same as a one hour bus ride in which everyone gets their own seat.
-If the toad only hops in and then out of the casserole, it’s still very much serve-able. If there are bugs floating in your drink it’s fine as long as they’re dead. A blender can bring a lot of joy to your life. (I’m actually grieving the fact that we have to leave the blender behind, no more smoothies and iced coffee).
-Just because there are three times more people on the bus than it can actually hold doesn’t mean you can’t add three bicycles, a massive sack of vegetables and fifteen more people.
-If you’re a Nicaraguan four year old, no matter how many times you’ve been reminded of the Gringo’s real name it’s still more fun to refer to her as “leche” (milk).
-The words “This is our life. No seriously, it is” come out of your mouth once or twice a week because your life now includes: surfing on your day off, navigating six different modes of transportation in a foreign country to reach a city an hour away,
jogging in a rice field at the base of a volcano and joining the dance team at church with no warning or practice.
-There is no such thing as clean feet, except for the five minutes right after you shower. Sandal tans usually wash off in the shower, although it is comforting to think of it as a tan for the other 23 hours of the day.
-You can have an entire conversation using Google translator.
-You don’t count bug bites, but the number of patches of skin that are bug bite free.
-If you go into the kitchen at night, wait a few minutes after turning the lights on before turning the corner in order to give the rats, toads and cockroaches time to disperse.
