12 'Nica' Facts
#1. You might think your church is cool, but does it do fireworks? Before every mass...?
#2. Boys hunt iguanas for soup
#3. I live approximately 5 miles from an active volcano. What emergency evacuation plan?
#4. There is a type of bee that doesn't sting, but makes killer honey
#5. Every city has a celebration for their patron saint. The party lasts for a mere month.
#6. Ice cream truck+obituary=death announcement. Once in a while you will hear a motor taxi playing a obituary on a speaker through the town. The viewing will take place the same night in the families home and visitors not only wear black, but white as well.
#7. Men with machetes break into people's land to cut down trees, which is currently illegal. They are referred to as 'The Lumberjack Mafia.'
#8. Some of my students wear jackets in the morning because heaven forbid if it gets below 60 degrees.
#9. I haven't been called a 'gringo' once. In Nicaragua white girls are 'chelas.' I think it's chela cool.
#10. Yesterday I ate 6 mangos. Because I can.
#11. Justin Bieber is a better English teacher than me. Just ask any of the boys that I pass in the street, baby.
#12. There is more Coke consumed here than water.