*You have more than four kinds of currency in your wallet and you aren’t sure which one to use.
*Telling any shopkeeper that you’re American automatically makes the prices in the store triple.
*The person you are visiting with brings out a bottle of ranch dressing and you have the urge to drink it.
*You ask everyone in the room when the last time they changed their clothes was and after thinking hard for a few minutes they all decide that they honestly can’t remember.
*After being on a twenty-four hour bus ride you are convinced that you have lung cancer from all the people smoking.
*Every person on your team needs to use the outhouse at the same time and the only way to decide who gets to go first is by rating how bad your diarrhea is on a scale of one to ten.
*You spend a night sleeping in a tent in a park that is full of…and I mean full of cats who spend the majority of the night trying to figure out how they can get into your nice warm tent.
*If after saying something derogatory about yourself you automatically speak a truth over yourself before someone yells at you..example: Oh my gosh I’m so dumb…oops…what I meant to say is that I’m a woman of God.
*You wake up in the morning and can’t remember what country you’re in.
*You go the entire day positive that it’s Friday only to discover at team meeting that it’s actually Saturday.
*You see a three year old carrying his tricycle across a six inch wide bridge that hangs a good ten feet over a river of garbage and try not to have a heart attack.
Well I hope you enjoyed this wonderful little account of some of the crazy things experienced by myself and other squad mates in the first three months of our trip. We’re in Israel at the moment but more on that later.
Three months in Italy… say less!
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