Happy 100 Days on the RACE!!!!!!

Happy 100 days on the World Race to F, G, and H SQUAD!!

 

Jambo from Team AwakenDepth!! 

 

We are sitting around over a kettle and some hot chocolate enjoying watching the awesome rain here in Kitale, Kenya!

 

We thought as a team we would come up with 100 crazy random things that have happened to us that could have only happened while on the World Race.

 

Enjoy

 

1. Squatty Potties, enough said
2. Chased sheep (Robin)
3. Talking about poop and what just happened in the bathroom and having it be perfectly acceptable to bring it up at any time (Emily)
4. Tore down and rebuilt an outhouse (Tom)
5. Waking up and forgetting which country you are in (Emily)
6. Diarrhea and having some sort of unknown illness suddenly seems like no big deal (Christina)
7. Ordering Coke is safer than ordering water (Emily)
8. Actually having to go and fetch your water for your “shower” (Kat)
9. Sleeping with all of your belongings on your bed under your mosquito net (Robin)
10. Public Transportation being push started (Ali)
11. Having 5 seats in a car doesn’t mean that only 5 can fit (Emily)
12. Adopting a puppy for your contact without permission (Tom)
13. Bringing a water bottle with you everywhere you go (Ali)
14. Brushing your teeth from your water bottle (Robin)
15. Looking for a tree when you have to pee (Robin)
16. Carrying toilet paper with you EVERYWHERE (Emily)
17. Chaco tan lines (Ali)
18. Getting super excited thinking I have a tan and then realizing that it was just dirt (Christina)
19. Looking for wifi everywhere you go (Ali)
20. Carrying all your belongings with you everywhere you go because it’s just the safest thing to do (Emily)
21. Hiding your laptop in the most random places because you can’t carry it with you that day (Christina)
22. Automatically adding 3-5 hours to any travel time you are given, and hoping it is only 3-5 hours (Emily) 
23. Saying “Guys, I got THAT stomach gurggle happening right now” and everyone knowing exactly what that means (Christina)
24. Having to teach on the spot and never having previous teaching experience before or any type of warning (All)
25. Teaching Introduction to Aviation in Kenya (Tom)
26. Having several different currencies in your backpack and not knowing which to use or which is which (Ali)
27. Calling home 7 hours too early because you forgot it’s actually the middle of the night back home (Christina)
28. Having geese chase you down the street on your way to the bus stop (Robin)
29. Having a random shirtless Moldovan man walk into your house every morning looking for a shower (Emily) 
30. Going to the movies means 7 people around a laptop (Ali)
31. Not knowing what you’re doing for the month, where you are staying, or where your next balanced meal will come from is just normal (Christina) 
32. Kids running up to you saying “Mazungu” (white man!) (Ali)
33. 21 people sharing 1 shower and just being happy there is a shower (Emily)
34. Seeing cockroaches and gaping holes in the structure you’re staying at for the month is fine, don’t even think twice about it (Christina)
35. Watching the “Art of Public Speaking” on your rest day while the power is out for your entertainment (Christian) 
36. When you teach about child abuse in a country you have only been to for 1 week
37. When you think of months in terms of countries, as in, on the 28th of Kenya we go to Nairobi!
38. On field trips you get to talk to street kids who are huffing glue
39. Walking through mud and poop is absolutely normal, the standard. 
40. When you pick bones out of your meat as you are chewing
41. When you paint your nails for the soul purpose of hiding the dirt
42. Fretting about making weight for your pack at the airport and watching everyone cram as much stuff into their daypack as they can 
43. Internet sticks are a blessing and a curse all at the same time
44. Animal print is ALWAYS in style no matter what country you are in
45. Sleeping under 2 bug nets because you aren’t taking malaria meds
46. When you wipe your dishes that are still wet from being cleaned by your contact because you don’t know where that water came from or what kind of parasite it might give you. 
47. When you teach the kids in your class the macarena because they don’t speak english and you don’t speak Swahili (Emily)
48. When you start speaking in broken english because you’re so used to just communicating that way 
49. When you make animal sounds to try and order or buy something
50. When the people at the internet cafe blair loud inappropriate American rap music because they think all Americans listen to it 
51. When your taxi driver uses the volume button on the radio to tell you how much you owe him for a cab (Ali)
52. When the only word you understand people using around you is American (Emily)
53. When your contact leaves you in the middle of the bush and tells you it’s vacation…
54. When a single foreign outlet has at least 5 different computer chargers in it, or 5 different power strips in it….. 
55. When you follow your logistics team into a beauty room for squad worship… normal.
56. When you stop to take pictures with the donkeys on the side of the road (Robin, Christina, Emily)
57. When you have $3,500 to support raise in 20 days and it just feels normal, always some sort of deadline coming up for SOMETHING (Christina)
58. When $15,500 becomes not so big of a number (Emily)
59. When your most important question for your team leader is “Do we have a shower” for the next month
60. When your translator acts like they don’t know you in public because of how you’re dressed (Robin)
61. When you wear a headband to church and everyone thinks you’re married (Christina when sitting next to Caleb in Moldova in church)
62. When you choose the coffee shop you hangout in based on the wifi and the toilet situation (Emily)
63. When you get excited to see a McDonalds because it’s something familiar (Kat)
64. When you almost don’t recognize one of your teammates when they get a new shirt
65. You instantly know the second someone has taken a shower 
66. Knowing words to songs in other languages and having no idea what you are saying (Emily)
67. When you show up to teach English club with no translator and the kids end up teaching you a song in Italian 
68. When the men on your squad become the standard you will hold for other men
69. When your whole team links arms and pretends you are on the wizard of oz and skip down the road because you are all too scared to walk home super late when it’s dark 
70. When you go down the wrong side street to get back home and you run from crazy dogs that are trying to chase you
71. Deciding instantly where the best hammock location is when you arrive to a new site
72. Your weekend plans might include a chocolate factory or going to a jungle where elephants and giraffes are or going to the Carpathian Mountains 
73. Fluffy Towels……….  non existant
74. 3 hour church service? Bring it!
75. Dancing and shouting are all very normal at church
76. Not showering for an entire month….. yup! 
77. To flush or not to flush the toilet paper, that is ALWAYS the question
78. When you stop asking what’s in the food because you just don’t want to know
79. When watching flies land on a fly strip because that’s the entertainment (Ali)
80. What your contact means by short walk is put on your chacos, tevas, merrels, or tennis shoes 
81. When you have to put your shoes on to go to the bathroom AND roll up your pants.. even inside
82. When a smooth travel day only consists of 1 bus ride and 2 planes
83. When you can hear your teammate in the bathroom and everything that goes on
84. When the door to the bathroom doesn’t close so you just announce to everyone that you’re in there and hope word spreads 
85. When you meet back up with your squadmate and find him in the middle of a Bucharest sidewalk worshiping 
86. When your ride misses the stop so they go the wrong way up a one way street to make up the difference (Emily)
87. Crossing the street has become a very real game of frogger (Christina) 
88. When you think you see an American so you casually walk by speaking English and hope they say something to you (Robin)
89. New head band? It’s like Christmas! (For Payton)
90. Voxer messages are simply the best!
91. Never underestimate the free table
92. When pillow pets are all the rage
93. When your crop top becomes a full shirt because it’s that stretched out from being worn that many times (Robin)
94. When wrestling with your pack is no big deal anymore 
95. When you know which teammate is who based on which sleeping noises they make
96. When you sleep in a tent inside the house because your living situation is that unique
97. When sleeping on a broken cot is the best sleep you’ve had in months (Robin)
98. Ice? What’s that?
99. When the meal on the airplane is the most balanced meal you’ve had since you’ve left (Emily)
100. When you answer the question “what are you doing when you get off the Race?” becomes so ridiculously annoying that you just answer with “I don’t know, I don’t even know where I’m living next month let alone in 7 months”