World Race training camp: where you shower less times in 10 days total than the amount of worship sessions in one day; where even introverts pray to be forced to share tents with each other simply to be warm at night; where your hygiene declines with the temperature lows because #bucketshowers; where you experience authenticity quicker than the portapotties fill up. I am already so blessed to be calling these girls and guys my home for the next year.
At training camp my squad and I compiled a list of our “all-time lows,” and I wanted to share them with you.
TRAINING CAMP:
- Where you use eight face wipes to de-brown your face
- Where your glasses fog just from putting them on cuz it’s 40 degrees outside
- Where you can’t brush your hair because it’ll frizz and you know you can’t wash it
- Where you calmly ask if there’s a spider on your face… and there is
- Where 4 of your squad still hasn’t washed their face on day 8 of training camp
- Where all the men fight over the last piece of chicken at dinner
- Where another body has to lay on you simply to survive
- Where you take bucket showers… enough said.
- Where you have a scorpion as a faithful bucket shower companion
- Where you projectile vomit with a backpack on
- Where you hike and can’t change underwear because the staff takes your pack
- Where the porta potties fill up in the 24 hours the boys are gone #shy
- Where you put peppermint oil under your eyes to stay awake
- Where you can’t tell if the brown water in your bottle is coffee or dirt
- Where you sleep with your hands down your pants to warm them
- Where you wear socks with chacos backwards and one upside down
- Where you wash all visible parts of your body in the warm Chick-fil-A sink water
- Where you brush your teeth via mint Oreos
- Where contemplation looks more like constipation
- Where you have to get baptized to get a bath
- Where these are normal conversations:
- “Mya you look cute! Did you change?” “No”
- “Taylor I have something of yours!” “Is it my dignity?”
- “Danielle what’s your all time low for the day?” “I just burped up crickets”
- “I’m so glad to be around people who let their standards fall as far as mine”
