You Know Your In The Malaysian Jungle When…
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1. Roosters start crowing at 2AM
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2. You get a leech while bathing in the river (Miranda)
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3. All the men go running into the jungle with spears to catch a wild boar
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4. 20 geckos climb your walls at night time
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5. You see your teamate go into the bushes with just a chair frame and you know its to poop with (Matt)
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6. You never feel dry because you sweat so bad
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7. You Wake up with s swollen face and rash all over your body and don’t know why (Lauren)
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8. You Have chickens run into your “bedroom” and jump into your bags
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9. You Eat flowers and bark off trees
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10.You can swing off vines into the river
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11.You see a 2 year old using a machette as a toy
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12.You wash your clothes and bathe at the same time
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13.Diner consists of fish, chicken, duck, board or turtle and ALWAYS rice.
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14.You get pinched by a scorpian during group worship (Lauren)
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15.Your head itches and you don’t know if its from dirt, dandruff or bugs
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16.You see a family of 5 on 1 motorcycle
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17.You start communicating with grunts and hand gestures because ther is no translator
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18.A 62 year old man is sitll having babies
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19.Using a fork seems foreign because you eat everything with your hands
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20.The ants and centipedes are the size of texas
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21.You run out of water and start drinking from the stream…hoping you will be OK
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22. Bamboo can be used for anything and everything
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23.Your lips swell up for days from eating raw mango (Miranda and Karen)
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24.A 47 year old has 13 children and 27 grandsons
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25.You have to teach english even though they can’t understand what directions you are trying to give them
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26. Your bathroom is 5 steps outside of your “home”…AKA…the tree line
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27.You dont wash your hair for 5 days straight
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28. 90degrees feels like a cool day
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29.The men only acknowledge you after you go logging with them
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30. You have to clean your nolgene with bleach because it starts to smell like a fish bowl
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31. You can either choose the head or tail of the fish they serve
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32. Kids watch you from all angles while you bathe
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33. 5 year old girls carry around their 3 day old sister everywhere
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34. Spilling things doesn’t matter because you can just sweep everything through the bamboo floors
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35. You have to chase your soap down the river everyday
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36. You feel like your teeth are going to fall out from all the sugar in your drinks
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37. Your legs look like you have chicken poz but its just mosquito bites.
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38. You pull a fish spine out of your mouth and havn’t eaten any fish
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39.Hanging a mosquitio net makes you feel like a princess in a palace
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40.You have to take a 15 minute uphill walk just to get to the begining of your work day
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41.Babies get dropped in your lap and then pee on you
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42.Slap-jack is the only way to interact with the pastor
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43.You don’t where deodarant just to keep the mosquitoes away.
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44. You look down at your bowl and realize there are small fish heads all through your vegetables
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45. You let a 14 year old boy drive you on his motorcycle while wearing a sarong, no helmet and no shoes.
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46.Walk through a rubber tree forest
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47.Let someone pierce your ear with a needle and string (caleb)
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48. Watch children climb a vine like they are half monkey
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49. Put garlic in your water to keep mosquitoes away
- 50. After you leave the jungle the first thing you do is find some oreos and icecream and soda.
Leech (Miranda) Bad Rash (Lauren)

