Sunday, January 4, 2009

You Know You´re a Student Missionary in Nicaragua When . . .

your Christmas tree has an angel made of a toilet paper roll on the top.

you name the tarantula in your shower Peeping Tom.

your clinic has a possum living in it.

you have to push your truck down a hill in order to start it in order to have power to pump up the tires on your four-wheeler.

you try to stay up until midnight on New Year´s Eve, but you´re too tired to stay awake because you normally go to bed at 8:30.

candlelight dinners no longer seem romantic because the candles are necessary to see your plate.

you´ve forgotten what it´s like to be able to hear your friend´s voice over the noise of the vehicle you´re riding in.

everyday conversations are conducted in three languages at once.

the chickens come in the kitchen and you get a kick out of closing the doors and chasing them till you can catch them and hold them upsidedown by their feet.

the plane flies into the airport and someone has to shoo the horses off the runway before it can land.

you have a truck engine chained to the bottom of your porch.

a chicken walks into your dorm every day to lay an egg next to your suitcase.

you take a pan off your shelf to bake a cake and cockroaches crawl out of it.

out of 7 bicycles that your group has bought, only 3 or 4 are ridable at any given moment.

you have to take an extra pin with you to put the wheel back on your four-wheeler in case it falls off while you´re riding it.

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