Today, I wanted to go home. I wanted to pack my suitcase backpack, leaving most of my stuff behind so I don’t have to carry it, go to Nairobi, get on a plane and go home. I honestly have not felt this way the whole World Race. There have been days I miss home, but not enough to actually contemplate quitting. I’m not a quitter or am I? Maybe today I will be. But as I headed to the outside restroom that would compare to an outhouse in America, minus any type of toilet seat, I came to the small room with a hole in the ground and a concrete type toilet, began to enter in and then found I was not the only one in there. There was a chicken pecking around in there. I shooed the chicken out, chuckled, and thought this would have never happened if I didn’t come on the World Race. Then, as it stormed this afternoon and we didn’t have electricity, didn’t go to our ministry because of the rain, and most of my teammates slept, I decided to write a list of things that would have probably never happened had I not spent the last eight and a half months traveling on the World Race. As you read my list, they may not all be considered “good” things, but I am all about experience being the greatest teacher so although some may be considered “bad”, they have all taught me something. In honor of me turning 32 in a couple of weeks, I have come up with 32 things. Enjoy! (PS,,.I really wanted to put pictures with this, but it's very difficult to upload those in Africa.) If you want to see complete with picture go here: http://angie-peace-of-mind.blogspot.com/
Things I never thought I’d do in life…that really happened.
32) Take showers using a bucket. (Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya)
31) Hangout with a friend from home halfway around the world. (Cambodia)
30) Go to a hospital and drink charcoal. (Honduras)
29) Go to a music festival in Rwanda.
28) Sleep on the floor of the worst hospital in Central America. (Honduras)
27) Go for a week straight without showering because it’s cold. (Honduras and Kenya)
26) Sing to raise money for a hospital and actually earn money. (Malaysia)
25) Help change 13 women’s lives just by raising a mere $25 each for them. (Uganda)
24) Ride a horse for the very first time along the Costa Rican mountainside.
23) Enjoy traveling with 50 People. (This started around month 4.)
22) Ride a bicycle across a half mile bamboo bridge. (Cambodia)
21) Live in a house made of mud. (Kenya)
20) Hug a witch doctor who decided to follow Jesus. (Uganda)
19) Sleep in a tent for two months straight. (Nicaragua and Honduras)
18) Lead worship and prayer on a rooftop in Thailand.
17) Use a toilet that is a hole in the ground with only two and half sides of privacy. (Uganda)
16) Learn how to make cappuccinos and lattes from a barista in Malaysia.
15) Wash my clothes by hand. (Nicaragua, Honduras, Malaysia, Kenya)
14) Drink from a bag and a straw. (Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia)
13) Wash and treat people’s feet and hands who had been affected by Jiggers in a Ugandan Village. (I didn’t even know what a jigger was until a month ago.)
12) Bathe children who had no access to water in Cambodia. Then fund a well after we left to help them continue to have water.
11) Go to the movies in multiple countries for less than $4 and enjoy the best caramel popcorn ever while watching the movie. (Costa Rica, Honduras, and Malaysia)
10) Play soccer on a regulation size field against a team of Rwandan women and win. (Rwanda)
9) Use a pick ax. (Nicaragua)
8) Swim in a river in Thailand while looking at Burma.
7)Kill a chicken and then eat it for lunch. (Rwanda)
6) Get Malaria. (Uganda)
5) Raft Grade 5 Rapids on the Nile River while having malaria. (Uganda) I had never even rafted before.
4)Participate in a 3 day long water festival called Songkran. (Thailand)
3) Eat fried crickets on top of a mountain overlooking the city. (Cambodia)
2) Be a Hispanic clown and dance in the streets. (Nicaragua)
1) Make really close friends as a result of traveling the world for 11 months together. (Who does this kind of stuff???)
