You know you’re on the World Race when…
You regularly drink your beverages from a plastic sandwich bag.
Your host catches a snake in their yard then casually takes it to the backyard to kill it for dinner.
All of the clothes you started the Race with are evenly dispersed among all your squadmates by month six.
You’ve celebrated New Years three times within the last seven months. Three times. (We have had our traditional New Year, Chinese New Year, and Cambodian New Year.)
Your best days start with listening for God’s voice.
You have taken a crazy variety of vehicles to ministry. (Taxi, chicken bus, tuk tuk, sung taw, motorcycle, etc.)
You have lived in a house, school, apartment, church, a tree house, slept in a hammock, but you still haven’t used that tent you brought yet!
You’ve lived with 80 pigs (or some kind of livestock) before.
You have gone at least one month with little to no wifi.
You have had 30 minute “conversations” with someone that doesn’t know any English.
You have eaten rice everyday for the past seven months. For. every. single. meal.
You have had strangers come up to you asking for a selfie with you. It’s basically like being famous without earning it.
You have no idea what your day is going to look like until it is five minutes before you leave.
Just kidding, you have no idea what your day is going to look like until you’re one hour into ministry that day.
You now have either someone’s initials shaved into your head, a new deadlock, a new piercing, or some other addition to your look you never would have rocked before because you lost a game of “what are the odds?” to your teammate/squadmate.
You have mastered the art of the squatty potty. No choice.
You have had children stare at you like you’re an alien for five minutes straight without blinking.
Yup. Life is interesting. Fellow Racers, let me know if I’ve left anything out and post it below.
