-Sometimes you feel the need to eat plain salt and sugar out of the bowls to the extent that your team has to cut you off and hold you accountable.
-Sometimes your team goes through roughly three rolls of toilet paper per day even when no one is sick.
-Sometimes you hate vegetables so much that you will expend copious amounts of energy to pick out every little piece from the vegetable fried rice that is served multiple times a week.
-Sometimes your team has to show you how to wash your hair in a bucket because you haven’t ever had to do it.
-Sometimes you get totally hooked on the coffee-flavored hard candy and proceed to get a couple of your team mates hooked as well.
-Sometimes your team consumes roughly 700 Oreos over the course of several weeks.
-Sometimes the sound of typing and chewing grates on your nerves and you develop a tick.
-Sometimes you know your team absolutely despises you because they have the job of searching for lice and eggs in your hair…but they do it anyhow and finally (almost) eradicate it!
-Sometimes you legitimately want to assist with making dinner but get told no by your host’s family and you are then relegated to your room to just wait.
-Sometimes the house where you live is so utterly cold that you and your team keep the bedroom door closed to try and retain the heat only to discover that very strange smells develop when seven girls stay in a single room without air flow.
-Sometimes the sight of a set of stairs is enough to push you and your team over the edge because you climbed approximately 3,428 of them during your four day trek through the Himalayans.
-Sometimes you hug your host because you are SO excited to ride in a private van on a six hour drive as opposed to a public bus and he gets all awkward and does not hug you back.
-Sometimes you drop more money on clothing in one month than you have on the entire race combined because you do not have enough layers to compensate for sub-40 degree temperatures.
-Sometimes you bite into what you believe is a green bean on the flight from India to Nepal only to immediately discover it is one of the hottest peppers that has ever entered your mouth. You may or may not yell a profanity while your squad mate laughs at you. Numerous other squad mates may or may not have made the exact same mistake.
-Sometimes you are asked to watch a shop while the shop owner runs an errand with your squad mate.
-Sometimes it feels like God is playing a cruel joke on a select number of your team mates because you always seems to get lukewarm water for bathing while they get ice cold water.
-Sometimes your two bed mates fall asleep, leaving you maybe half a body’s worth of width on the mattress. Your team mate who sleeps next to the bed worries she may get crushed in the middle of the night if and when you fall off the bed.
-Sometimes you honestly forget to change your underwear because it is so cold all you can think about is changing into your pajamas as quickly as possible.
-Sometimes you make the mistake of divulging a strange body issue to your team and it becomes a joke they won’t let you live down.
-Sometimes the best part of your week is the occasional popcorn and tea your host’s wife makes for you after a day of ministry.
-Sometimes your host has a pug named Gringo, complete with an embroidered personalized sweater.
-Sometimes Gringo sneaks into your clothes and/or sleeping bag and tries to burrow before your team mates catch him and chase him out (after videoing it of course).
-Sometimes you play two straight hours of Head’s Up (the Hey Mr. DJ category) with your team as well as create an entire “World Race” deck.
-Sometimes iPod Idol is the most entertaining thing you can think of doing on your six hour drive home from trekking but your squad leader is the only American man in a van full of women and reaches the end of his rope as you belt out such hits as “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” and “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” ***iPod Idol is a game where your friends place headphones in your ears, choose a song on the iPod, turn the volume way up so you can’t hear yourself, and you have to sing the song loud and proud.
