1. When you bathe in the shower, but wash your hair outside with a hose because the water pressure is better, or you ran out of water inside the house.
2. You have 22 people crammed into a 20 passenger bus with 20 packs and 20 daypacks.
3. You sleep on the floor for months in a row. and…you occasionally sleep with ants. But as long as they don’t bite you just brush them off or leave them be. More cuddle buddies 😉
4. Having a bed to sleep in makes you feel like you’re living in a palace, regardless of whether or not you are still using your sleeping bag.
5. You think it’s cool to announce when there’s an earthquake taking place….it’s not like everyone can’t feel it….
6. You don’t have TV for entertainment so you make up your own TV shows by living your own adventuresome life. Really we should do this always, for real, it’s way better.
7. You Face Time someone at least 3 times in order to finish your conversation because the internet keeps cutting out.
8. You feel cool and self sufficient because you hand wash all 5 sets of clothing you own and know exactly the time of day that you need to have them hung up by in order for them to be dry by morning when you need a fresh set.
9. You sleep in the airport.
10. Your van gets lost on the way back from the store, but at least you get to watch the whole sunset through many different types of scenery and bond with the way too many people who are crammed in the vehicle.
11. The highlight of your day is the laundromat because you now have extra clean clothes and you got wifi while you were waiting. But that was only month 1…most of the world does not know about washing machines yet. Sinks, washboards, and scrub brushes!
12. You don’t have wifi all month and pay to use sticky Internet cafe computers instead.
13. The toilet paper is pink. Yeah it’s a thing, cool huh?!
14. Cars honk… But half the time it’s for the cows to get out of the road or intersection.
15. What do you get when you have 1 South African, 2 Americans, 6 Bolivians, and everyone has luggage? A 5 passenger taxi of course!
16. A 14 hr bus ride takes 27 hrs because the bus keeps getting stuck in the muddy road from all of the rain the night before. And the bus is emptied multiple times so that it can be dug out of the mud and pulled out by the passengers pushing it and pulling via the rope tied to the front of it!
17. You have a love hate relationship with shopping because it means you have to get rid of something or carry more.
18. It starts raining and people scream, “oh no! The laundry’s drying!”
19. Your van breaks down in the middle of a busy intersection during rush hour traffic on the way to ministry, so you all get out, stop traffic, and push the van to the side of the road.
20. Being in a bus for almost 80 hrs in 1 month happens…
21. Showers are usually cold, so you get really excited for warm or hot water!
22. Your heart breaks when the church asks you to do a series of seminars on domestic violence because they have one of the highest abuse rates in the world.
23. You and your friend are deemed the town Psychologists because you studied psychology in undergrad.
24. You cannot figure out where the apostrophe is on the keyboard because half the keys are not what they say they are.
25. You laugh at life every day, because who lives like this?! Then you realize you do, and it is an awesome adventure.
Live well,
Crystal
Support update…I cannot find the colon or apostrophe on the keyboard, but I am at $11,170 with just over $2,000 to go. Thank you to everyone who has made this opportunity possible!
