Highs:
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Getting to sleep in a hotel for debrief with heavy down comforters.
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Visiting with some friends of mine who live in Nepal.
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Arriving at our new home and finding out we have a roof top that over looks Kathmandu!
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Shabbat Shalom at Dilip’s house and getting to hear all the kids yell worship songs
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Playing soccer with our community and with the slum kids
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Getting to buy Momos for street kids and spending time with them
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Hiking up to the temple at the highest point in Kathmandu and getting to pray over the entire city
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Walking into a slum and all the little arms of the slum kids asking to be picked up and held
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Getting fed THE BEST LUNCH after church
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Acting out bible stories for the slum kids
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Drinking chai and eating jeris (fried like a funnel cake but made with sugar and honey batter ….. yum)
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Being a ballerina in the rain on our long walk home and making people laugh.
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Having the entire building to ourselves, and screaming Taylor Swift songs
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Getting to talk to a girl working at the dance bar for two hours about her life and connecting her to our host to possibly get out of the industry.
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Getting to sit in an uncomfortable place (dance bar) and hear a young girls dreams and aspirations for her life.
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Getting to take our main host and translator (Sameer) out to a nice Easter dinner because one of our teammates parents offered to pay for it.
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Going to Easter Service and not having to do anything but be a part of the congregation.
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Finding out we lived in an areas surrounded by Christian restaurants and coffee shops.
Lows:
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My whole body feeling dry because I am not used to mountain weather anymore.
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Smog that is so thick you can feel it in the air.
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Paying for a taxi to go see a movie and the movie being sold out when we got there
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Seeing a bunch of kids run out of a shack when we arrive, and seeing their drunk parents sitting outside.
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Not knowing where some of your regular street kids are when they don’t show up on certain days
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Being drenched and getting hailed on the whole way home from our picnic
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Sleeping on squeaky bunk beds, where if you moved at all they would wake up the entire room
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Not showing for three days because your only option was a river that might have leeches in it and it was a 30 minutes walk away.
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Getting charged at least double the price almost everywhere we went because we are white.
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Finding out that your framer bones are always too long for any bus in Nepal.
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Letting a small puppy sleep inside the church with us in the village, and finding out the hard way it had fleas. (Aka getting bit by them all night long)
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Getting bumped by a car when walking down the road and it knocking my water bottle out of my hand.
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Figuring out that my new hydro flask lid that my parents brought me was giving me a rash in my mouth.
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Seeing the sad reality of what girls go through working at the dance bars.
Bozos:
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Going to the Lazy Gringo (Mexican food restaurant) and eating so much that you end up not eating for the rest of the day and part of the next day.
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Trying to shower and the power going out almost every time.
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Learning that washing our laundry by stepping on it actually cleans our clothes better hand hand washing it
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Our entire team being so exhausted after a long week that we can’t communicate in anything other than dramatics.
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The power going out so the doorbell doesn’t work anymore (and we only have one key to our house, and we all live on the second floor)
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When one of your teammates shares an umbrella with a stranger on our long walk home from our picnic.
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Having your squad mates over to hang out but our whole team being so tired from long ministry days that we end up trying to avoid them
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Thinking you were going to the village to do ministry when actually you end up adventuring and camping out on a mountain instead.
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Climbing down a mountain and your guide is running down the mountain in flip flops (I don’t understand how he did it)
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Getting into a bus and finding out that there is standing room only and you are a whole head too tall. I had to be hunched over the entire 20 minute ride.
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Walking down the the streets and seeing Marijuana plants growing like weeds everywhere. (Maybe I should have put this as a high 😉 )
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Buying fresh Buff milk and finding out the hard way that it is only good for one day.
