You Might Be In Cambodia If…
1. there are roaches covering the bathroom floor, so you use the bidet sprayer to spray the roaches away so you can get to the toilet in the middle of the night.
2. there are roaches in the top of your toothpaste, but you clean it out and use it anyways.
3. there are roaches in your bags of food, but you clean it off and eat it anyways.
4. there are roaches under your book, but you move them off read it anyways.
5. there are roaches in your toiletry bag, but you get them out and use it anyways.
6. there are just lots of roaches.
7. you tell your tuk tuk driver to take you to “Boeng Solung” and he asks if that’s in English or Khmer…umm…
8. you overestimate your strength and try to pick up a hefty child at church causing back pain and no fun for the kid.
9. your sleeping pad dies a painful death (possibly due to roach nibbles) making your new sleeping arrangements the tile floor.
10. the country is obsessed with condensed milk in EVERYTHING.
11. your host family’s child is obsessed with diary products causing your yogurt to frequently go missing.
12. your host family’s child has a anger/cussing problem…he’s 5 years old.
13. you’re teaching English and the kid says a different “F” word in place of frog.
14. your teammate accidentally dies her hair orange and then red and then back to the original color.
15. a fish in a plastic bag leads to screaming and running because you think it’s a rat.
16. a rat downstairs sounds more like a murder scene and your teammate injures her foot stepping on it causing herself to have a hospital visit to make sure there is no fracture.
17. your teammate gets burnt so bad that our host proceeds to completely cover her with powder to help make her feel better.
18. a little girl at a stop light dusts your feet with a duster after you repeatedly tell her no, but then she just keeps doing it so you let it happen.
19. the tuk tuk drivers know exactly where the “white girls” go, so directions are no longer necessary and the price doesn’t have to be bargained anymore.
20. the tuk tuk driver tells you he knows where he’s going and then he proceeds to make a 15 minute trip home a 2 hour adventure (he also wants to charge you more because it took longer even though, he’s the one that got you lost)
21. the prayer team at the church prays for your diarrhea night one of ministry.
22. when you get sick, your host takes you home, tells you to go to sleep, and proceeds to keep sitting in the room just staring at you for a bit.
23. when you get sick, the host mades you a nice hot glass of condensed milk…blech.
24. you sweat getting dressed because it’s so hot.
25. you sweat brushing your teeth because it’s so hot.
26. you sweat getting out of bed because it’s so hot.
27. it’s so hot ALL THE TIME.
28. your hosts become your best friends and then family.
29. they just understand what it looks like to live in healthy Christian community.
30. you are given the chance to see Angkor Wat at sunrise on the way to Thailand.
