Our time here in Asia has come to a close and we’re at the airport about to head to Europe! These past 5 months have been so full of some crazy, good and bad, experiences! Here’s a fun little blog summing things up!
One hard goodbye is Asian hospitality. We have meet some of the most genuine people here. They love really well and are so giving!!
…. unless you’re a night bus driver, then you aren’t the nicest..
Goodbye Ministry hosts.
Goodbye Asian Malls, thanks for giving us a taste of America.
Goodbye South East Asian Beaches.
Goodbye Mountains.
Goodbye Monsoon Rainstorms.
Goodbye Chai Tea and odd head bobbles.
Goodbye Potato Crisps.
Goodbye Night Markets.
Goodbye versatile and affordable healthcare.
Goodbye wildlife like tigers and monkeys and elephants, freakishly large bugs (that you eat in Cambodia)
Goodbye monks, and seeing temples on every corner.
Goodbye Tuk tuks / motorbikes/cheap transportation
Some things we won’t be missing:
Cambodian heat
The smell of burning trash
Pollution
Squatty potties
Having to take off your shoes before you go into a room
Not having toilet paper in every bathroom (its always a gamble)
Sewer rivers
Garbage waterfalls
Being told you’re fat because you’re not xxxs
Transportation:
Asian night buses
Overstuffed auto rides
Sleeping in humidity
Sleeping with bugs in your bed
The many smelly smells of Asia
No public trashcans ANYWHERE
Sweating constantly.. even when youre sleeping
Stair steps not being even
Taking a shower next to the toilet with no shower certain #flood
Just the weird set up of bathrooms in general
People taking selfies with you ALL THE TIME.
People peeing in public.
Men walking around in towels or with just their belly hanging out.
Taxi drivers saying they know where they’re taking you, but they don’t, they get lost, then charge you extra..
Being charged extra for everything because we are white Americans.. the assumption of being rich is real!! Little do they know we are ballin on a budget over here!
Heres some food that some people will miss or not miss:
Indian Curry
Nepali Momos
Vietnamese Pho
Cambodian Fried Tarantulas/snakes/beetles
Sweetened condensed milk in coffee
Baby bananas
Bones in meat
Rice for every meal (for now)
Shoutout to all the treasurers and the currencies they had to deal with every month:
The Indian Rupee (65/$1)
The Nepali Rupee (103/$1)
The Vietnamese Dong (22,600/$1)
The Cambodian Reil (4,000/$1)
The Thai Bot (34/$1)
Something we take advantage of in the states is being able to use our debit/credit cards, over seas it’s rare to find a place that takes card and it’s always a guessing game..
Some sayings like:
“Same same but different”
TShirts that have bad English on them
—- A kid at church wore a shirt that said “99% pervert” … awk. One of my squad mates posted a blog a few months back with some other cool shirts.. check it out
(http://kaitinavarrete.theworldrace.org/post/say-what)
Later Asia.. Its been real.
