Since it has been 3 months in the field (WOW) I figured it was time for a short blog about some of the ways I have noticed change in my own life since I left for the Race. Most of these will be lighthearted observations about how living in this community has changed what is normal.
I never use to…
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Eat so much cereal
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Stare at a plate of food scraps wondering if chickens could eat everything in the dish
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Find clothes pins literally everywhere
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Consider a hammock a vital piece of household furniture
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Buy a kilogram and a half of honey and watch it disappear IN ONE WEEK
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Buy 2-3 kilograms of peanut butter and watch it disappear in less than a week
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Hide half a kilogram of my own peanut butter in my backpack
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Eat so much peanut butter
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And honey
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Buy food by the kilogram
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Obsess over making the “squish” sound that Haitian women make while doing laundry by hand
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Try to show off when I figured out how to make the “squish” sound while hand-washing my underwear
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Hand wash my underwear
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Have a beard
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Get into staring contests with the cows next door (and win)
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Melt in the middle of December
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Shower in waterfalls
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Look at a bowl of corn mush like God himself sent it to me
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Discern between nameable chickens and edible chickens…don’t name the edible ones
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Fill a journal in 3 months time
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Spend every morning in Scripture
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Hear from God so regularly
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Walk with God in everything
