Things I have learned over the past two months

So I realized that even though I have only been here for two months I have already learned so much. While I was thinking of how to sun all of it up my girlfriend wrote a great blog posting and I felt that it summed up my experience thus far so well that I was going to copy it and post it.

Here is what I learned:

1) Senegalese Terranga - There is always room for you at the dinner bowl, and your visit to anyone's home if treated with the upmost hospitality
2) Time is relationships not money.Make sure to take the time to say hello
3) I can now take a bucket bath by using only 3/4ths of a standard bucket filled with water!!
4) A lime squeezed onto any dish makes the meal taste so much nicer.
5) How to successfully turn down marriage proposals (saying that you have 4 husbands in the states, or that I will need four houses minimum usually gets the point across!!)
6) Sitting under a mango tree makes any weather 10 degrees cooler
7) When using a Turkish toilet ala latrine, women should use it facing backwards. It's much easier to hit the target
8) Ramadan - a month of reflection, personal growth, and abstinence from our natural attachment to possessions that are meaningless in the grand scheme of life - pretty good idea
9) Communication is 97% nonverbal. The heart speals louder than words
10) Any business can be handled over three cups of tea - the more foam the better