You know you’re on the World Race when …

 

You know you´re on the World Race when…

 

…you use your shadow as a mirror.

…your milk and rice are green from food coloring.

…you’ve been on a safari in Africa

…you’ve pet a lion cub and a tiger cub

…you sleep in a big room with 59 other people.

…you take "the sword of the spirit, which is Gods word" literally and kill mosquitoes with your bible.

…you get overly excited for Ice water.

…you get overly excited for clean water.

…you are worshipping at night, on a mountain, on top of a rock, with lighting bolts lighting up the sky.

…you eat dinner using head lamps.

…you take a shower with head lamps in a dingy shower stall as millipedes crawl around you.

…a "baby wipes" wipe down is your shower.

…you can spot insects from the corner of your eye about 8 feet away.

…your sandal has killed more insects than you can count.

…your sleeping in a hut with a tin roof.

…a goat sneezes on your hand.

…it's rare to not talk about bowels during meal time.

…you use a credit card to smear peanut butter on bread.

…you use two irons to make quesadillas.

…your air dried clothes have a burning stench because the people are burning trash right beside them.

…you where the same outfit for a week because you don't want to take dirty clothes with you to the next country.

…you're boarding a moving bus.

…your socks are so dirty they're crunchy  and you have no choice but to wear them.

…you see a man driving a motorcycle with two sheep riding on the back.

…your birthday is celebrated with a room full of balloons, an apple with candles, pizza hut, gas pains, boarding a bus thinking everyone is behind you and your alone as it drives away, 5 hours of Karaoke, and in China.

…your Christmas shopping is done at a supermarket.

…you don't realize that your talking about poop in front of strangers.

…your pushing a shopping cart around in a mall.

…a squirrel throws a nut at you and laughs.

…you cram 7 people onto a tut tut. 5 people squished in the cart and 2 people riding behind the driver on the bike.

… you forget what American currency looks like.

… you are snorkeling on a gorgeous beach and find a random baby doll head at the bottom of the ocean.

… you loose your I-pod touch, on a bus, month 5, in the Philippines.

… you pray to God to keep you safe before you cross the streets or as your driving in a car while both in China and India.

… your apartment smells like intense poop and you sleep next to a moldy wall.

… you find out the Taj Mahal is a tomb and not a palace.

… your mind set changes from “looking cute” to “looking clean”.

… cows are part of traffic in India.

…  you’ve gotten used to using squatty potties.

… just plain cheese is a 5 star gourmet meal.

… you have peanut butter withdrawals from not having it for a whole month.

… you travel a round trip total of 33 hours by car to spend only one night and 7 hours in Greece.

… you get pulled over 3 times by the Bulgarian police while driving back to Romania from Greece.

… You’ve held your bladder from 7 am in the morning to around 1 am the next day.

… a donkey drawn wagon is driving down the street along side a BMW.

…  there is not a single spot in your house that doesn’t have wet laundry hanging to dry.

… you use spray deodorant as body spray.

… you’re watching a movie with a really cute guy in it but all you say is “wow, that bed looks so comfy” or “look how fluffy his pillows are”.

… you make up a rap about dirt while weeding a yard.

… you squat over a hole in an outhouse to use the bathroom, and have anxiety every time you use it because “things” are getting piled up very high.

… using a Frisbee to chop vegetables in is the best idea ever (or at least the best idea when you don’t have a cutting board).

… you left your big backpack at the bus station and have to wait 2 weeks before you get it back. And luckily you had a change of clothes in your day pack and you re-wear 2 outfits for 2 weeks.

… a giant black beetle that looks like a rhinoceros decides to land beside you as you shower.

… you hit your tent every 2 minutes because the crickets outside your tent wake you up at 2 in the morning and keep you from falling back asleep.

… your doing the “Hokey Pokey” and “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” to teach English to children.

…you smack a flying beetle in mid air with your laptop.

…  a toad decides to hop in the shower with you.

…when our transportation to our next ministry sight involves 17 racers piling up in the back of a small pick-up truck.

…you day dream about food all of the time.

…you’ve taught yourself how to play guitar.

…alone time means sticking headphones in your ears.

…tiny little tadpoles swim in the water you bathe with.

…you’re doing any kind of construction work and thinking about what truck or tools you could  use in the USA that would make this job a whole lot easier.

…you eat mystery meat.

… going to see the doctor implies you going to his house and “the doctor” checking you right in his kitchen.

…in the middle of doing a workshop the power goes out and everyone whips out their head lamps and continues the workshop in the dark.

…you are sleeping on a beach in your tent still wearing a sandy bathing suit, go out in the pitch dark behind your tent to pee in a bush during the night, wake up, eat breakfast and jump right back in the ocean.

…you have a breakdown in which you are crying in your tent one night from mixing sharp chest pains, with bugs, with being so close to the end of the race, with missing your family, with more bugs.

…you have to put on a rain jacket to brush your teeth.

…you see your best friends wedding through Skype at an internet  café and hear “ssshhhhhhhh” from the owner  because your awwwwwing and cheering so loudly.

…you go outside to bush your teeth and in the middle of brushing you look up and you’re blown away by the trillions of bright breathtaking stars in the sky, and then snap back when you realize that you have toothpaste and drool running down the sides of your mouth and neck.

…most of your free time is spent singing worship songs.

…sleeping in someone’s home is just normal.

…you see improvements in your Spanish from being in 3 Spanish speaking countries for 3 consecutive months.

…you get to month 11 and home seems more like a reality than a dream.

…you get to month 11 and you look back and think of all of the awesome things you’ve experienced, all of the horrible things you’ve experienced and how you would not change a thing.

…you get to month 11 and remember how God has transformed you in these 11 months.

…you get to month 11 and give thanks for all God has done in these past 11 months.

…you get to month 11 and the heaviness of saying goodbye to people that you have spent everyday with for 11 months starts to sink in.

…you get to month 11 and feel humbled that God chose you and used you to get to be able to touch lives around the world and to be able to love people with the love that Christ showed to us.

…you feel completely satisfied by Jesus! And when you know that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:38-39).