If you don’t want to…
bathe and wash your clothes in a river
share a twin bed with someone you just met (for 3 straight weeks)
eat rice with spicy fish sauce for breakfast
scrape a dead lizard off your pantry shelf
take the pure aroma of hot, rotting garbage, put it into the texture of undercooked eggs, and eat it with a smile because the locals call it Durian, The King of Fruits
dodge slightly poisonous tree frogs on your way to the bathroom at night
try to teach English while a spider the size of your face hangs out on the wall
regularly use power outlets that show evidence of just having caught fire
accept these three words: all carb diet
take about 5 weeks to download a 45-minute episode of your favorite TV show
sleep in 48 different beds in just as many weeks
forget what it’s like to not sweat
be woken up in the middle of the night by an Indian man trying to sell you chai
grow accustomed to the scent of raw sewage
have all of these things become more normal to you than a shower
see the world for how it really is, and learn to love it like the One who created it…
…don’t go on the World Race.
-Katie
here’s a sneaky snapshot from one of the homes we visited in Kenya:
if that doesn’t prove the sheer randomness of World Race life… look more closely.
yes. that’s a dove. in a martini glass. with a magic wand.
