You wash your hands and face with kerosene to get paint off
You get caught in a rain and hail storm walking home from the grocery store on your first day in Africa
Your teammate asks what language you want to sing Happy Birthday in (like you actually know more than one)
You cut off part of your clothes line to use as a bra strap
You get hit, kicked, pinched, etc., by the local kids just for being white
You get to sit across from an Ethiopian Olympic runner on the airplane
You start to think you are famous because you get stared at & followed everywhere you go
The first day you meet your new host he disappears and leaves you stranded at a coffee shop for over 2 hours (and then he ends up being on the couch a few feet away the whole time)
Your host boils you some water for tea, but instead of using it for tea you make a mug of hot water and take it to the bathroom to use to shower
Your teammate gets lice and you lather her head with mayonnaise using a fork and a headlamp while the power is out.
Your door is broken so your teammate uses baby oil to try and fix it and ends up pulling the whole door off the hinges
You fit 6 people into the backseat of a Toyota Corolla and your host asks you to sing the national anthem as you drive through the village
Your teammate starts crying in the middle of a coffee shop because she starts missing the kids from the previous month
You don’t think twice about smashing bugs with your bare hands
You see a ‘new freckle’ on your arm only to reach down and touch it and realize that it’s dirt and it wipes right off
Your speaker dies while entertaining 50 kids so you play music from your phone into a microphone
The ATM takes your debit card so you and a teammate play Phase 10 in a bank for 30 minutes while you wait to get it back
You start to answer to the name ‘muzugu’ (white person)
You think you’re going to youth ministry but get there and find out you’re going to chop down a tree in order to make poles for a volleyball net
You get asked “what did you do to make your hair this way” (aka red)
On your walk to church a man pulls a rabbit out of a bag and asks if you want to buy it
You go to put on your seatbelt and your host says “no, you don’t need it, you have on a white shirt” ??
You get asked if you have trees in America
Your host brings you and a teammate the last two forks at a wedding so you don’t have to eat with your hands like the locals
You agree to share scripture at church and end up sitting up front with a huge white robe on for the whole service
On your daily walk through the woods to ministry you pass two armed guards and a group of inmates cutting down trees
Your teammate goes to get her crutches sized and ends up at a lumber yard
Your host asks when the last time you were de-wormed was
Your van driver pulls over and tells you he is going to get some “ganja” (marijuana) and comes back with a roasted banana
You think you’re going to a nice place to stay for final debrief only to get there and end up in your tent.
