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  • A few hour van ride really means 7 hours.
  • A 5 minute hike up the hill (with all of our stuff) really means a 30 minute hike to the other side of the mountain.
  • Chickens, roosters, ducks, dogs, and turkeys walk up to your tent that is set up indoors.
  • You wake up one day and discover that a chicken laid an egg right outside the tent.
  • There is only one van that goes to and from the village center and the city of Cobán – makes life easy!
  • People pass their children and groceries to strangers to hold in the back of the bus/van
  • Everyone on the team has plans to buy, kill, and eat the roster that insists on crowing at 3 am every morning.
  • There is no running water. So we either wait for it to rain or hike up and down the mountain to get water.
  • The entire village does their laundry and bathe at the spring/pool at the bottom of the mountain
  • You see real rain for the first time on the race – talking down poor and long steady rain.
  • You get excited to see real grass in Antigua.
  • You discover that the only free place with Wi-Fi have outlets for computers only in the bathroom.
  • You get really excited to have running water and real toilets at said Wi-Fi place.
  •  you set up tents inside because of the rats and not the bugs.
  • You literally live on the side of a mountain.
  • Sermons are translated from the local language, to Spanish, to English and vis-versa.
  • The pastor's youngest will not stop screaming at all hours day or night so Josh prays for silence so that we can sleep – and the kid is quite the rest of the night!
  • The local kids walk with you to and from school.