– A volcano is an excellent place to roast marshmallows.
-Make the most of what you have. A shower functions as a large kitchen sink.
-To make a World Race sound system, you just need to hook up a few speakers together.
– A Steri-Pen can make your food look like a science experiment.
– Team Freedom lives at an orphanage. Dan eats breakfast here for 6 meals/week, lunch 6 meals/week, and dinner 5 meals/week. If at each meal, Dan eats anywhere from 2-5 corn tortillas per meal, how many tortillas does Dan potentially consume?
[34-85, but probably around 50 per week- if not more]
-Guatemalan tradition states that for someone's birthday, you should wake them up with fireworks that sound like gun shots at the butt-crack of dawn 6am. We decided that it is important to observe cultural norm, so we did said tradition for Nikki on her birthday, but took a 2 for 1 deal and added Renee in on the fun for her coming birthday, just because she would otherwise be expecting it.
-We know the tradition to be true, because we saw a man on the street lighting fireworks outside his mother's window for her 93rd birthday.
-Another fun tradition is to eat the birthday cake after scaring the crap out of the birthday celebrant at 6am.
-When you get on a 'chicken bus' in Guatemala (pretty much a painted school bus) you must be prepared to become friendly with everyone. Across two school bus seats, there is a 6 person minimum.
-Said chicken bus may time travel. Your 30 minute commute may magically be 15 minutes long.
– Be aware that upon exiting the chicken bus, there may be a guy that REALLY has to pee and decides that it is appropriate to do so while hanging off the bus door. Ick.
-A team of six people may use one roll of toilet paper a day.
-Guatemalan frosted flakes contain more frost than flakes. You may have to dilute your bowl milk before drinking it.
-If you want to entertain kids with music, you don't actually have to know the words to songs. “I don't know the words to this song,” will suffice as song as you keep smiling and singing it to the tune of a guitar.
-“If a broom passes over your feet, you'll marry an old man.” — superstitions are funny.
-Be careful when you pour gasoline on fires. That stuff's flammable, you know.
-If you don't like black beans, plan on starving.
-There are green lemons.
-Donations make their way around. I've seen baby sized Tom's, a J-Lo poncho, the hood to a Juicy Couture jacket, 80's sweatshirts, Space Jam bedsheets, and other miscellaneous things on the kids here and in donation bags.
-Bacon makes everything better, especially if you pour the grease on french fries before baking them.
And I'll end on that note.
Bacon makes everything better.
Stay tuned!
