We’ve officially made it to our 11th country – Santa Ana, El Salvador! We’ll be here until April 12th, when we’ll head to our last month of the race in Antigua, Guatemala!!
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Oh, and I have some exciting news! Team Sequoia has a new team member! I’m SO excited to present to you, Lili Mejia! J She’s an amazing person and I am so glad that she’ll be with us these last two months J
Lili and Jeremiah 🙂
Here are some random ‘normal’ things that I’ve noticed may not be so normal in the ‘real world’…
A 6 hour busride goes by as if it were 10 minutes long. Ashley Rose and I were laughing about how a 2-3 hour bus ride seems like a ride down the block and that it’s not even necessary to bring a book because there’s no way we could get that bored that fast! Even 12 hour busrides fly by faster than we would like a lot of the time. Our longest busride was 64 hours from Kenya to Tanzania. Our longest total travel time was 81 hours from Vietnam to Honduras.
cramming about 20 of us in a van fit for 12 heading to lake victoria in kenya…nothing unusual 🙂
Jonathan Beckman and I freaked out when we saw lawns full of lush green grass! We got huge smiles on our faces and started pointing out the window yelling, “hey! Look it’s grass!!!” …we haven’t seen grass iiin ooooh, about 7 months since Busia, Kenya. I never knew how much I would appreciate it!
We’ve experienced every type of toilet and shower system you could imagine. We’ve had squatty’s, toilets that need pails of water from the well to flush them, to bushes during our ‘rest stops’ on our African busrides haha – so ridiculous to see a bunch of white people and Africans running into the bushes as fast as possible before the bus starts honking it’s horn for us to get back on…we still wonder what ever happened to the man the driver didn’t wait for before we cruised off! Our latest involved going in the backyard because the toilets weren’t flushing in Honduras. Warning: If our toilets are ever broken at home, please don’t be alarmed if you see us walking out the door with a roll of toilet paper in hand J
the toilet in odessa, ukraine…yum
Showers have been everything bucket showers from the well in Africa to trickles of freezing cold water you could barely stand while trying to stay directly in the middle of the stall so the spiders didn’t jump on you in Central America. One thing I’ve been craving is to be able to shower and then get out of the shower to dry off and still be clean…that dream has come true today! Hooray for our first time using a normal bathroom since who knows when!?
Lira, Uganda…looked like a dog took a bath everytime we showered haha..sick.
Instant coffee with powder cream and without sugar actually tastes good…
Relief and excitement that the mesquitos don’t have malaria but getting the bad news that Dengue fever is going around…bummer! haha
Finding cereal at the grocery store!
Living 12 hours ahead of Michigan to being 1 hour behind and reliving an entire day in LA (Groundhogs Day, anyone? 🙂 ) when traveling from Asia to the US on our way to Central America
After saying some of our hardest goodbyes at 4am yesterday morning to traveling 6 hours and starting all over again, this is one the toughest transitions so far.
love and miss this family so much <3
We’re working with another team again this month which I’m pumped about! 12 of us are living with our contact and his family. Over the next 3 weeks, we’ll be speaking at schools, spending our evenings passing out food to the homeless and prisons, preaching and hanging out with the youth in the community on the weekends.
Thank you so much for your continued prayers and support. I love you all so much and I am SO excited to see you in a few weeks!
