Overheard

2007-06-13T20:53:00.000+03:00

You know you are old when you can say this...

"Back years and years ago... well, it was actually back in the depression era..."

- direct quote from my grandpa starting a story

Student Quotes

2007-06-10T21:42:00.001+03:00

"He's really keen to save me"- One student about another

"My home environment is not very, um, Jesus-friendly"

2007-04-22T15:51:00.000+02:00

This pillow is all up in my business! - while trying to squish on the couch to see the computer screen.

When John comes back he's going to have four needy women to deal with... - a male student

No Joke

2007-03-28T23:51:00.000+02:00

"Hey, when you are walking back here from parking the car can you stop at home and grab paper towels and cleaner? There is a big pile of poop in the room and no I am not kidding."

MSU says goodbye...

2007-03-26T16:32:00.000+02:00

Guy #1: "Alright, we need to go catch the bus now. Everyone line up for hugs, guys over here, girls over there. Okay, you two start..."
People rotate through giving hugs and saying good-bye, kind of awkwardly like two sports teams after a game.

Guy #2- Breaking the silence, implying it's time to head out: "Well..."

Guy #3- With a shrug and a sheepish grin: "Round two?"

ok, i'm resurrecting this thing!

2007-03-25T00:36:00.000+02:00

"Wait, so who does Taylor like???"
"Well, Isaac and Conrad are taken...there's a 20% chance it could be you..."

"How easy is it to get meth around here?"

2007-03-09T20:40:00.001+02:00

The Bible is like drugs! I just can't get enough of it.- Croatian student

2007-01-11T01:55:00.000+02:00

"Her ovaries are warm. Leave them alone!"

"All of us wait for someone to say yes because none of us want to be blamed for making us stay up late. No one says yes and no one says no. I'm waiting for someone to finally say no!" - while pointing up in the air as though saying something revolutionary

2006-11-30T16:11:00.000+02:00

"Ah, Andy! I love that guy and I'm not afraid to show it."

"So, if you don't get a visa, I'll marry you. Then you can stay."

"My mom asked how she could help, but she's already married.... So i guess she can't."

"I got a visa! I'm going to frame it! but first I'm going to make copies and put your names on it too."

"I was praying for the back of your head the whole time."

2006-11-27T02:00:00.000+02:00

"Alexis is cross dressing?"

2006-11-26T18:29:00.000+02:00

"Now, use your words."

"There's a turkey the size of my roommate on our terrace..."

2006-11-23T20:33:00.000+02:00

Quotes from my 55 year old male Croatian friend:

"It's only time!" in response to my suggesting that he doesn't need to fix something that we are going to replace anyway

"Open! Off! For safety! Seguridad! Segurno!" repeat this 10 times, notice the three languages. in reference to saftey on an exposed electical wire

"Ah, you make good pie. You know what we say in Croatia? When woman can make good pie, she can then get married." raised eyebrows and a wink

2006-11-21T01:35:00.000+02:00

somebody's pants are going to get peed tonight...

Feeling Lost

2006-11-19T18:08:00.000+02:00

Person 1: “So this guy had all these verses or whatever on his stick, and…”
Person 2: confused “Huh? His stick?”
Person 3: with a knowing nod “They were on an island. Their plane crashed.”
Person 2: still skeptical “Oh… Continue.”

2006-11-19T15:59:00.000+02:00

"Ugh. These pretzels are gross."
"Yeah, I don't know why we buy them."
"I think they kinda taste like mold."
"Let me try one.... Yuck."
next line said simultaneously by two girls
"We can feed them to the boys." "We can feed them to the birds."

Person 1: The dung smell is almost gone.
Person 2: You said dung.
Person 3: I haven't used that since 4th grade.
Person 1: What do you want me to call it?!
Person 2: Poo!
Person 3: Crap. That's a whole lot of liquid poo coming out of that tractor.
Notice person 2 and person 4 no longer add to the conversation as they are struggling to breath laughing so hard.
Person 1: You can smell the difference. It's not human, so you don't say "poo." It smells more like cow poo, chicken poo, sheep poo maybe, not horse poo, therefore it is called dung.
Person 3: I'm glad we're defining what kind of poo that was so we can tell the story later.

2006-11-18T18:18:00.000+02:00

"I think it's SO WEIRD that kids grow inside people's stomachs."

2006-11-16T00:47:00.000+02:00

“What are baby lambs called?”
pause
“You ARE Jessica Simpson!”

2006-11-15T01:17:00.000+02:00

"I'm about to get a crush on one of the ECCU guys!" roommate calling about bank account
whispers away from microphone "Nevermind. He's like a dad."

"How many camels do you think we can get for Sunny in Morocco?"
"Oh, I bet we can get 40!"
"If we steal her back, we can sell her multiple times."
"That's what we're doing then. We could keep the camels under the stairs in the apartment, a great ministry tools! Oh yeah, we're coming back to Rijeka with 100 camels."

"You ladies know that all of you have to dye your hair blonde like Sunny's so we can sell you in Morocco, right?"

2006-11-07T21:01:00.000+02:00

"Oh we met on coffee after an unsuccessful-MUP-going." A Croatian friend coining a phrase for our MUP interactions

"There's some bunching going on!"

2006-11-06T18:08:00.000+02:00

After describing a series of text-message-related mishaps and frustrations:
"...then I put on some Incubus and started writing emails to supporters."

2006-11-06T16:45:00.000+02:00

Via text message:
"I'm realy don't ineteresting for all that what are you talking to me. Please stop send message to me and don't borow me any more!"

2006-11-04T22:54:00.000+02:00

Person #1: "I'm gonna go spend time with Jesus..." Pronounced española style = Hey-soos.
Person #2: "Who's heysoos?"
Person #1: "The neighbor kid."
Person #3: "Um, he means Jesus."
Person #2: "...I'm such a loser."

*Person #2 is the only person on our team who speaks Spanish.

2006-11-04T21:08:00.000+02:00

"Speaking of bodily functions, Andy got pooped on today!"

"Hey will you guys bring ice cream cones back for us?"
"Yeah, will you please?"
"But my hands will get cold!"
"Allison, we're doing this event on sacrifice!"

"People find my blog by searching for young girls in underwear..."

"You should really see LOST, it's like crack cocaine."

A group text to all the women on the team:
"Do you think beards are hot?"
Responses:
"LOL, depends on the guy, but I'm rather fond of goatees."
"Yeah, I think beards are hot."
"Ha ha, um, not really."
"Ha ha only crazy mountain man beards that could potentially be used to conceal a medium sized cat (wow talk about stuff on my cat) or perhaps braided back up into the sideburns. Seriously though it depends on the person. I'll go with a tentative yes."

2006-11-03T21:54:00.000+02:00

"So I have a question, would this be considered inappropraite touching?" (hand rubbing on shoulder)
"Um.. ya I'm pretty sure it would be..."

"Oh man, did you guys just look over here?"
"Yes, but we averted our eyes quickly so we didn't really see anything."
"I would say I'm sorry, but I'm not really.. A lot of leaves went down my pants.."
"I don't think leaves can go down your pants if your pants have fallen down. I think they are just on your butt.."

2006-11-01T21:51:00.000+02:00

"Well, I touched her butt, and that wasn't against team norms."
"Maybe team norms need to be more specific..."

"You're hot... I'm sure he notices that tall latte coming in from time to time."

"Why did you stop kissing me?"
"Um, there is a large banana to our left."

2006-10-30T22:31:00.000+02:00

"Hey, do you know how to pump gas? 'Cause I don't."

"OH MY GOSH!!!"
"What?"
"We just saw the new John and Andy!"

2006-10-30T22:12:00.000+02:00

"I don't know him, but I feel that I'm sleeping with Pete"

The Single Life

2006-10-20T18:26:00.002+02:00

“Did you do the ECCU transfers?”
“Yeah, we all have crushes on the ECCU guy!”
“He was so nice!”
“And so helpful and CUTE!!”
“Can we call him back?”
“No.”

“Our campus director is hot.”

“What’s going on with upgrading our internet?”
“Oh, I called today. I totally have a crush on the T-Mobile operator.”
"I'll call next time."

2006-10-20T17:51:00.000+02:00

“Whoa, you guys, another guy got stabbed by a stingray!”
“Another guy?”
“Yeah, you know, like the crocodile hunter did?”
“Oh, right.”
“Some 80 year old-“
“What?! No way, there’s no 80-year-old scuba diver.”
“He wasn’t diving, he was in his boat and the stingray flew out of the water and landed in the boat and while he was trying to help it back into the water, it speared him!!”
“That’s not true. It’s some old man’s fable. He made it up or imagined it… What, you want me to believe a stingray flew into his boat and attacked him? No way. How would it launch itself out of the water?”
“Hey, the ocean is deep. It could get a running start! You know, like this…” [demonstration of stingray swimming rapidly towards surface]
Sputtered out while the rest of those present collapse into hysterical laughter:
“A running start? We’re talking about a fish here.”

2006-10-17T21:44:00.000+02:00

[Rolling eyes] Taylor, you think you're the only person in the world who speaks Spanish. Did you know there's a whole country full of people that speak it?!

2006-10-14T00:48:00.000+02:00

"Hey, lets park here; this seems good"

2006-10-11T23:05:00.000+02:00

"I'll take that bedazzeled bag in the back..."
"That's my mother!"

2006-10-11T21:45:00.000+02:00

[strange noises]
"He's a bigger baby elephant."
[very quiet strange noises]
"I'm a newborn baby elephant."

"Now that the men carry purses, we can wear tight pants like Sara and have them carry our stuff!!"

"Ladies, do you want to put your cameras in Andy's purse?"

"The bags at the market are all big and bedazzled."
"Huh, I thought they were kind of grumpy and plain."
[confused pause]
"The bags?"
"Oh! No, I was talking about the old ladies..."

"Want to know my favorite word? POSAO!!!!!"

"What are the three things you want to do before you end your life?"
(A helpful note on planning your suicide, courtesy of the STINT Playbook.)

2006-10-07T12:45:00.000+02:00

"I just want a purse" - spoken by a male

2006-10-06T20:16:00.000+02:00

"Do any of you ever get carsick?"
4 emphatic voices, "Yes!!"

"How do you fall while cross-country skiing?"
"You've obviously never seen Grandma Margitan's woods."

2006-10-06T19:05:00.000+02:00

"Oh, let's take one more. I made the last one so that the tower was going up your butt."

2006-10-05T15:34:00.000+02:00

"Uggh. I hate it when I start to laugh, because then I start to sweat."

"You look like a cancer patient right now."
"No, I'd say more like an Olympic speed skater."

The Beginning

2006-10-05T15:25:00.000+02:00

"Adam looks younger after he sinned."
"Ah, so sin makes you look younger and more attractive."

"You have a crush on Matt Mikalatos?!"

"We invented your continent." said by Croatian student to American Stinter

"In heaven, marijuana will be legal, and it will be great."