We had some pretty funny things happen to us in Mozambique!
I always like to remember the crazy World Race stories because they make you
think “DID THIS REALLY HAPPEN!?” Oh the life of a World Racer!
- Our first time visiting a Portuguese speaking
church in Beira (close to Dondo), we realized this was unlike any church we’ve
been in this year. We were in an open stadium with several hundred people.
Before we knew it, there were people running down to the front with roman
candles shooting off the fireworks to get people excited for the LORD! It was
awesome!!! Haha - One time riding back from Beira, we had a blow
out on a tire on our truck. So, with me and Alison in the front and the rest in
the bed of the truck, we swerve over and hit a man on a bike carrying a bundle
of sticks. Luckily we just hit the sticks not him, but it shattered the side
view mirror and flew in on me and Alison! No cuts or anything. J - Our last day at Iris, we realized that several
of us had the dreaded matecania. We had heard about the worms all month that
lay eggs in your feet if you walk barefooted. Well, despite our attempts to NOT
get them, I had 2, Charles had one, Mike and 2 and Alison had 13!!! Basically
they are little blisters that come up on or under your toes and toenails and
have a little black dot in them. The worms that live under the mango trees
imbed the egg sacks into your skin and it grows until you get it out. Exactly.
GROSS! So, I had a little 11 year old boy out on the porch with a needle
digging worm egg sacks from my feet. WHAT!?! Haha - As we’re making dinner one night, with just us
girls, a cord starts sparking on the floor and starts flaming! Everyone is
screaming fire and running around trying to figure out what to do! We go
through all the logical answers…Don’t use water, it’s an electric fire, Don’t
touch it or it’ll shock you, use towels to beat it out, go get a fire
extinguisher. Well, in the what felt like eternity of trying to figure out what
to do, we failed to realize we could just unplug the cord from the outlet
because it’s insulated. Geniuses I tell you J - Our bus ride to Dondo started at 10:00 p.m., involved sleeping on the bus that night, with all of our packs and 4 or 5 Mozambique men, staying on the bus for 24 hours straight (totaling 82 hours of continuous travel), and having a drunk man dance for us. It was quite entertaining!
- Our bus ride from Beira to Dondo was only about 30 minutes long, but we were packed in like sardines! There were people so packed in the bus, (we were standing and had to hug because that was the only way to squeeze in), that the man selling the tickets just started ushering people to the back of the bus where a grown man proceeded to climb in the back window and snuggle with the rest of our team who was standing back there.
- Chelsea Hughes, our squad leader (squeader) was with us the month at Iris Ministries. For some reason she had trouble staying in her chair, she would plop down in one and the number of times she fell out of a chair that month totaled 14 or 15. One of the times including me ending up on the floor with a bruise on my head 🙂 HaHa, this is the liife on the World Race!
