Do you ever wonder what you will find yourself doing on The World Race? Haha. That’s a good one. Since being in Romania we have found ourselves doing a range of “funâ€� work projects. When we first got here we found ourselves scrubbing the floors of a giant conference center by hand to clean up the paint that was everywhere. Since then we have been housekeepers – cleaning bathrooms, office spaces, washing dishes for 22 people at the end of the day after 3 meals, laundry – countless loads of laundry that have to line dry.
Oh don’t forget last weekend when we prepped a conference room and bedrooms for the local pastors – who doesn’t love vacuuming dead lady bugs off the floors of twenty something rooms?
It was Labor Day here on Tuesday so we worked in the morning to prepare for the picnic ��” anything from peeling potatoes, to push mowing the grass, to weed eating, to sweeping sidewalks, to my favorite … scraping paint/water build up off the tiles for the fountain with a butter knife … duh!
On The World Race you learn some unconventional methods for tackling various work projects. Here in Romania, they haven’t learned the importance of the Rug Doctor, so meet your real life Rug Doctors … us!
Just imagine with me … sample carpet squares … hundreds, maybe close to a thousand or more of them. Each strategically placed in 20+ various sized rooms. Well in order to clean the carpets here we have to stack all of the carpets from each room, but keeping the rooms separate. From here they get carried outside to the buckets of water to be washed and rinsed. After being rinsed, they are laid out in the sun – all over the property to dry for the day. However, they don’t usually dry completely in one sitting, so they have to be carried inside at night and stacked by room, then taken back out to finish drying the next day. When they finally finish drying, we have some awesome Y Squad men who muscle up and carry stack after stack of carpet squares back up to the correct room. We are like a well-oiled machine.
When we finally finish washing the umpteen million carpet squares and/or on a rainy day at the camp we will get to do some legit floor puzzles with all the squares and random strips of carpet to return the rooms to the way they started. Keep in mind, some of the rooms are the size of a mid-size hotel room, while other rooms in the “summer house� are big enough for 15-20ish bunk beds per room… maybe more.
Basically just envision a sea of carpet squares! Welcome to the rest of our month, surely… plus accommodating for another weekend conference.
So if you ever wonder what us World Racers do, never fear … here in Romania we are being put to good use as we prepare for the summer camp season.
Check out these photos to get an idea of where we live and work this month:
(Sea of Carpet Squares)
(More Carpet Squares)
(The place where we have pillow graduation – aka where the pillows dry)
(Even more Carpet Squares and Laundry)
(Little Cottage on the Property)
(The Castle)
(Local Community)
(Playground out back)
(Most of the laundry we did today in household not industrial washers)
