You Know You’re a Month 11 Racer When…

You know that you’re a month 11 Racer when:

 

• You can’t sleep in a room by yourself because you get lonely. 

• You only put make-up on if you want to look really nice, because it just takes too much time and effort. 

• There are holes in your bag of food from where the rats have chewed through, and you pretend like you have not seen them.

• You throw your toilet paper in the trash can even if you can flush it, because it feels wrong throwing it in the toilet. 

• When you know your teammates so well that you talk to their parents. 

• Spending over a dollar on a single meal feels like way too much.

• When you find yourself alone in a store (because your teammate is on the other end looking for something else) and you begin to worry because no one would notice if you disappeared

• Feedback and team time turns into ‘yeah, I had a sandwich. What did you have for dinner?’ and ‘…. You are using all the internet!’

• You find yourself wondering why America doesn’t have two different flush buttons, depending on how much water you need. 

• You hear rats crawling all over your stuff at night, and you are too lazy to get up and turn on the light, so you just put headphones in instead. 

• your prayers start to sound more like 'Hey dad' rather then 'our father who art in heaven'

• You can no longer speak in proper english, and resort to a simplistic broken english whenever you talk. Even to native English speakers. 

• When you know where everyone in your squad is from.

• You start wishing you took more pictures, kept a better journal, and wrote more blogs. 

• Every time you add a new friend, facebook asks you if you know them in real life.
• if your meal comes to the table in less then an hour, tastes alright, and is warm, it has been a successful night. 

• In your inbox you have emails from ten different people all over the world.

• You have heard so much Jesus culture, and Hillsong, that you know every word by heart.

• You are dreading the day when you no longer will have logistic people to show you where to go, and finance people to pay for everything and give you money.

• You eat food off the floor even though it has been there for days.

• You have been preoposed to by numerous men, and have actually considered one or two of them.

• You have currency form 11 different countries in your wallet, and wonder what they would do if you tried to pay for your lunch in Estonia, using Indian Rupees.

• When a squad of 50 people starts to feel like a group of 10 close friends.

• When you are dreading answering the question ‘so, how was your trip?

• you can say hello and thank you 11 different languages.

• When you have packed and unpacked your bag over 70 times, and can now do it in the dark (and have too).

• You are excited for the flight home, because that it 13 hours of watching TV and movies. 

• You have now seen the most amazing beaches, mountains, forests, and sunsets in the world. 

• You dream of driving a car again, but are worried that you won’t remember how to.

• You are beginning to wonder if your chaco tan is permeant.

• You are willing to eat food off other peoples table after they have left. 

• You are dreading the day that you have to pay for your own toiletries

• When churches start giving YOU charity because your clothes looks so shabby. 

• Someone tells you how many days are left on the race daily.

• You have found a child that you wish you could adopt. 

• You rub dryer sheets against your clothes and call it clean.

• You will sit there and watch the washing machine, because you are so glad that you are not washing your clothes by hand.

• You have no idea what any of the songs on the top 40 chart are, and have seen none of the new blockbusters. 

• You know every card game ever invented.

• You have seen more tv shows in one year then you have in your entire life. 

• Washing dishes with soap is optional.

• You choose to sleep on the floor rather then blow up your sleeping pad, because it either goes flat after 20 minutes, or you are just too lazy. 

• You haven’t blogged in two months. 

• Skype is really not that important anymore because you know that you can just talk to them in person in a couple weeks. 

• When ‘what are you doing when you get home?’ is the number 1 conversation starter. 

• You say to everyone on your squad ‘bye, see you at the finnish line’

• You have your whole first week back’s meals planned out. 

• You are worried that people back at home will have no idea what you are talking about because you use so many World Race isms.

• When you get home you want someone to buy all your food for you so that you don’t have to make any decisions.