Huge thanks to my teammate, Saraya, for writing this blog! Check out the original, and some of her other blogs here!
- Just like the mansion, you’re constantly living with AT LEAST 7 people at a time, 50+ during all squad months. But it’s not a mansion.
- Racers have one-on-ones all the time, and other people frequently interrupt them.
- Team changes feel a whole lot like rose ceremonies. Crying and all.
- Team time and cocktail hour are interchangeable. Pretty fun, but usually preceed tension filled gatherings (feedback)
- We always wonder if feedback is given “for the right reasons”.
- Chris Harrison is always introducing twists and turns, much like hosts that move ministry time up by 5 hours or cancel it all together when you’re already there.
- Every time the bachelor/bachelorette says “I didn’t realize how hard this would be. Neither did we.”
- When you take the WHOLE team to go grocery shopping and it feels like a group date gone very, very wrong.
- There’s always that one girl who wont shower or sleeps in her makeup for an entire month. (See Britt Nilsson from Chris’ season)
- We are always talking about this amazing “journey” we are on and the “journey” that our hearts are taking.
- When you have a boujee month and your room truly is the Fantasy Suite except that there are 6 other people with you.
- “This is the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make”, usually spoken about choosing a girl/guy, but for a racer it’s if we spend our personal money at a coffee shop again, or if we buy the shampoo that we’ve needed for the last two weeks.
- The confession room conversations are exactly like when you get to vent to an SQL or call your friends back home and drop your filter completely.
- On the bachelor, sometimes group dates involve getting out of your comfort zone to sing or do stand-up comedy; much like when you are sitting in church and the pastor says, “Sisters! Special song? Special dance?” And you really can’t say no.
- When you’ve been trying for days to find the best chai guy in India and it’s another disappointment…”I really thought he was going to be the one”.
- Everyone looking forward to Project Search Light like, “I really believe my husband/wife will be in that room”.
- Date cards are here!!! Set up sheet was emailed!!!!
- Final debrief confession time may end up feeling very similar to the Women Tell All episode. (Can someone get on making flash back clips??)
- “I’m not here to make friends.“ – gearing up to haggle prices at an Asian market.
- We’ve all left our jobs and abandoned the comforts of home, but for just slightly different reasons.
- Being stuck in a compound all month must be what the girls feel like waiting weeks for a date card, but with way less wine.
