This is a blog that features 15 random things that I experienced or learned in each country, this first one is for month one, January in Mozambique.
1. A 24 hour bus ride/travel day seems really short after having over 90 hours of travel at the beginning of the month.
2. Eno hammocks make for a great place to read, eat, sleep, watch movies, etc. You’ll never want to sit in a chair again.
3. Language means nothing when it comes to playing with children. You can always learn their games (mina filla) and try to teach them American games: duck duck goose which sometimes gets played as ducky ducky juice.
4. Sometimes rats run over you while you are trying to sleep. (jessicahurst.theworldrace.org)
5. 22 degrees Celsius feels like a cool day in comparison to normal humidity and heat of almost 30 degrees Celsius.
6. A cold Coca-Cola lite can be as therapeutic on a hot day in Mozambique as a mani-pedi in America.
7. You can cut a whole field of grass with a blade on a stick.
8. 25 people, a baby, and two buckets of fish can fit in a chappa (15 passenger van-like taxi).
9. Vulnerability and risk lead to freedom, P squad is really pressing into this freedom.
10. Apparently fish eyeballs taste good, I wouldn’t know I never tried them but Kirk on my team loves them.
11. People drive on the wrong side of the road and like to play chicken with the oncoming semis if they need to pass a slow car, but you rarely see any accidents.
12. Cockroaches don’t seem as scary after a month of being roommates with them.
13. Everywhere you walk you feel like a celebrity because random people wave and take pictures of you because you’re white.
14. The Indian Ocean is really really warm and definitely saltier than the Pacific.
15. Mozambican children are not afraid to show the joy they have in their hearts as they climb all over you, pull your hair to braid it, and smile up to your face and tell you that you are Bonita.
