Hello everyone!
Another month is winding down and as our team was reflecting
on our time in Kenya and Uganda, a “You know you’re on the World Race…� (African style) list soon followed. Here is the product of our humorous
reflections:
You know you’re on the World Race (in Africa)…
-When your team leader pees her pants on the contact’s rug
the first night in Uganda and doesn’t tell anyone till morning.
-When whether you take a shower or not is determined by the
weather.
-When, because of this, you shower four times the entire
month.
-When you give each other daily poop reports to rate
everyone’s health.
-When having people peeping into your house/over the
bushes/at the front door is totally normal.
-When you’ve never been more excited to see other white
people in your entire life.
-When you fit six white ladies and 35 African men into the
back of a small pick-up truck for an hour.
-When you live for a month without power or running water.
-When your bedtime starts becoming 9pm.
-When one of your teammates runs into the squatty potty to
change because she got caught in a torrential rainstorm while showering, only
to find another teammate diarrheaing it up.
-When you consider getting a weave.
-When you decipher what type of bug bite you have by
comparing with your teammate’s legs.
– When you come home to find all of your laundry drying on
the lawn/bushes/trees.
-When you have an “underwear tree�.
-When you command a fart to come out of someone in Jesus’
name.
-When you are never clean.
Legitimately, never clean.
-When “who is preaching tonight� is asked almost every day.
-When you are coerced into going up for three to four
African helpings of food so as to not offend the cooks.
-When you have Massai tribesmen cheer you on as you go for a
run.
-When you can get avocados as big as your head for 10-15
cents.
-When you wake up to an African paradise every morning.
-When you make “Cinnamon dolce lattes� out of coffee,
vanilla extract, cinnamon and sugar (delicious!).
-When you find your brush two months into the race and
realize you didn’t know it was missing because you never used it.
-When you find yourself fantasizing about McDonald’s
cheeseburgers (seriously, only on the race).
-When you think you’ve got a good tan going on, but then
realize that it’s only dirt mixed with dead skin.
-When you see elephants, baboons, zebras and warthogs on the
side of the road.
-When you find a chicken on the toilet.
-When your everyday walk down the street has a view that
takes your breath away.
-When a meal for my teammate and I adds up to a little under
$5.00 and includes: French toast, fruit,
fries, an omelet and two cokes (this is happening as I’m typing this up).
-When the server of that meal says “God bless you� over and
over again excitedly when you hand him 1,000 shillings as a tip (equivalent to
about 70 cents).
-When teaching the electric slide to “Jesus Freak� to the
church congregation is not only regarded as completely normal, it’s
encouraged.
Well, I hope this list makes you laugh as much as it made
us! We leave for Rwanda tomorrow, so
prayers for safety and renewed energy would be so appreciated! Love you all!
