As I was laying in bed tonight thinking of how I’ll be home in just over two weeks, I tried to let myself process everything that has happened these past 11 months. Try as I might to be serious or sentimental, my mind kept going to the things I’ll probably (read: hopefully) never have to do or choose again. To give you some perspective on some of the crazier moments of the World Race, I created a little game.
Disclaimer: all situations/tasks below have either been faced by myself or a fellow teammate in the last 11 months. None have been made up for dramatic purposes.
Would You Rather:
1. Have a mouse crawl on you in the middle of the night?
OR
Hike two miles in the pouring rain with your 60 pound pack and daypack?
2. Be woken up by the sound of obnoxious merchants and their horns?
OR
Have Asian karaoke right outside your window every night until midnight?
3. Have your bike breaks go out on you our your way to ministry?
OR
Eat a tarantula leg?
4. Need to wear everything you own because it’s so cold?
OR
Wear the least amount of (ministry-appropriate) clothing possible and STILL be a human waterfall of sweat?
5. Teach English to preschoolers in Lesotho?
OR
Teach English to a group of Burmese refugee children ranging from ages 6 to 16 in the same classroom?
6. Poop with your team leader of the opposite sex in the stall next to you?
OR
Go a week straight without pooping?
7. Be bedridden by a fever and chills or a parasite?
8. Hike 2 miles in a maxi skirt to meet the village chief?
OR
Have everything in your tent ruined by a flash flood?
9. Witness your ministry host slaughter a pig?
OR
Witness your host’s dog eating the pig’s head 10 minutes later?
10. Eat porridge and sadza every day?
OR
Eat fish head for every meal, but you get a side of rice?
11. Work in a garden all day every day?
OR
Sleep on the floor in a room with your 7 teammates with no AC in the dead of summer?
Yes, all of these things really did happen. Would I do it all over again? It’s a definite maybe.
