Highs:
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Sitting on the top of our boat and watching the pink dolphins
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Children’s ministry with the port town kids
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When you hear the generator turn on
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The beautiful empanada lady who comes to our boat and asks everyday if we want empanadas
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Walking to the local store and communicating we needed baking powder with limited Spanish and we got it!
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When little girls gift you with guavas they just picked off the tree
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Getting to be the first to try out the air conditioning on the boat (even if it was only for only 30 minutes)
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The sound of the mosquito zapper when you make contact with a mosquito
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Going to the weird fish museum/aquarium because our taxi driver told us to (we saw a lot of preserved fish from our river)
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Excitement of the kids when we invited them to come to our children’s program
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When you go into town for ice cream and WiFi and walk into air conditioning
Lows:
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Showers that shock you when the electricity is turned on
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Clothes that won’t get clean
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5,120 mosquito bites on only one leg (that might be an exaggeration
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Waking up in a full sweat
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Being swooped by bats in the Hull
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When you hear the generator turn off
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When an ant colony has made a home in your backpack
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When you stand for too long on the land in front of your boat and you get bitten by fire ants
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When your mosquito zapper runs out of charge
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When you find a mosquito and a spider living in your tent or room simultaneously
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When you find a fruit from a tree and find out you can not eat it
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Chicken town hall meetings at 4 am
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Getting charged by various large animals
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When your door doesn’t close all the way and you pray that no mosquitos get into your room while you sleep
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Sitting in the very back of a taxi and having to wait 10 years in the heat for everyone else to get out before you can get out.
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When you can not get your feet clean ever
Bozos:
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Taxis getting stuck in the mud for twenty minutes while trying to get back to our boat #rainyseason
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Trying to purchase chicken but instead we end up with quail. Yum 🙂
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When the chair breaks during your skit when doing children’s ministry
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When random clothes or water bottles fall into the river and you have to go retrieve them
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When you go to open a window and realize there is no glass in it
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When you think you are going to an aquarium and end up going to a fish museum where all the fish are preserved
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When you have been scratching your butt in public all month because of mosquitos
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When you are not sure if it is a pimple or a mosquito bite
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Having to set up the portable dental chair and test it out without instructions.
