Quotes from the Trip: Benin

me: “Sarah Palin is an idiot.”
him: “No, really?”

me: “Do you have deers in Italy?”
him: “Whats that?”
me: “Bambi”
him: “Oh. Yes.”

“He’s so scary. He’s so tall and black.”

“Don’t give her the camera, she doesn’t know how to use it.” -in reference to one of our local employees who is educated and has been working with the organization for 4 years

“So I guess I left Pfizer to become poor instead of to help the poor.”

“Your neighbor’s garden is always greener.” – The Italian’s version of a popular idiom.