Blog Written By my Teammate Leah Day of WORLD RACE SECRETS:
Reader discretion is advised…what you’re about to read isn’t pretty. Here is some insight into our team secrets, you can be the guess of who is who. Sorry for some of the details but these are realities of life on the World Race…enjoy!
-one person has brushed their hair 3 times in 9 weeks
-one person took 8 weeks to finish a travel size toothpaste…?
-one person has woken up with mouse poop in their hair
-one person has gone 15 days without showering &/or bucket bathing
-one person…actually multiple people choose to pee behind the building rather than walk to the bath house (and no, its not only the guys)
-one person has opted out of using shower gel in the shower, and one person doesn’t wash their hair
-one person has peed in their pants and in their skirt
-one person has hoarded peanut butter m&m’s for 9 weeks
-one person has pooped their pants and laid in it for 29 hours
-one person managed to accidentally poop on a wall
-one person has had an outbreak of mosquito/bed bug/flea bites…daily
-one person walked in the room…said “awe, I pooped my pants”…leaving the team to wonder if it happened at that moment or they were just recapping
-one person wears winter wear to bed…in Africa!
-5 people hitchhiked to town on the bed of a truck
-a few people have used leaves as toilet paper in the squatty potty (nothing like charmin)
-some people have put food in their mouth multiple times and immediately gagged and spit it out before hitting the back of their throat
-14 people rode inside of a 7 passenger vehicle while the 15 sat on the spare tire wheel on the back
-19 muzungus (white people) people rode in the bed of a truck
-everyone is getting very good at haggling prices for boda boda / piki piki rides (motor bikes…aka only means of transportation) as opposed to the muzungu price
-one person has a t-shirt that says “my name is not muzungu” on the back…yet continues to get yelled at by the name muzungu along with everyone here in Africa
-multiple people have showered in the rain or by gutter water
-multiple people have puked and had diarrhea at the same time
-multiple people have eaten intestines…kinda chewy
-multiple people have been proposed to…no takers yet
-multiple people almost drowned in the Nile
-everyone has successfully made an African baby cry…many of which run away screaming simply by the fact that we are muzungus…traumatizing them
-everyone has mastered eating moldy crumbly peanut butter jelly sandwiches
-multiple people have picked up soiled children and/or had a small child pee on
