My lovely teammate and fearless leader, Lindsey Gay has consolidated a list of very funny, yet very truthful statements about Month 11 on the World Race. You can visit her blog at: Http://LindseyGay.TheWorldRace.Org.
You know it’s month 11 when….
You stop buying shampoo and toothpaste because you’re “almost home”
You stop swatting at the flies on your face because you know they will just come back
You kill ants in your bed and just leave them there
When you’re told to preach and you don’t plan anything, you “just wing it”
When you stop running towards chocolate every time you see it
You start throwing out you dirty clothes instead of washing them
When you think a squatty potty and no toilet paper is normal
When you’re rushing around trying to get gifts for people who you forgot about
When you stop doing manual labor because you don’t need any more pictures of you digging holes
When you think it’s normal to plop down in some random home and eat all their food
When you stop washing your hands because who cares?
You eat with your dirty hands, because…. Who cares?
When you stop smelling things…………….
When you forget you’re white.
When you stop caring that people are starring because you’ve realized you’re a freak show…and start embracing it
When you stop listening when people talk because you never understand the language anyways
You think it’s normal to drive on the left side of the road
When you just stop looking in the mirror because nothing can fix this mess anyways
When you stop talking because everyone has been together for a year and we’ve heard all the stories
You started calling someone a nickname just so it seems like someone new is around
When you start acting like it’s your job to pass out any where , at any given time
When you see a KFC and you don’t even get excited
When you don’t even think it’s weird to drink grape soda for communion
When even if you get 15 hours of sleep you still feel like you’ve been up for days
You stop wearing shoes because it’s too much trouble to put them on
When you sleep outside on the concrete because the room with AC and a Bed makes it impossible to fall asleep
When you stop asking questions and you just do stuff because you were told, even if it makes no sense
When you start freaking OUT because you have no plan for your life
When you start getting prophecies and you think its normal
When you start over spiritualizing EVERYTHING
When you start naming all of the countries you’ve been to and you can’t remember anything that happened in any of them!!!
When your pack is filled with more presents than clothes
When you start wearing your presents for people because you threw away all of your clothes
When spending a US dollar almost kills you because “it’s too expensive”
When the only thing you’ve written in you journal in the past week is a make shift calendar to count down the days until home!
When you stop emailing people because you’re gonna see them in TWO WEEKS anyway!!
When you cry about everything because your body is too tired to do anything else
You recite airplane announcements word for word
Your testimony gets less and less censored
You stop blogging because no one reads them anymore
You think your favorite food is now the food you once gagged over at the beginning of the race
When the squatty potty accuracy is 100% even when its pitch dark
When you stop flushing the toilet because when the next person goes it its amusing ……
You turn the AC on so high that all your stuff freezes, just to make up for all the times you haven’t had it
You think living in a homeless shelter is a 5 star hotel
You don’t even turn on the hot water in the shower because it just doesn’t feel right
When you find bugs in your food and you just push them aside and keep eating
When you eat bones because you’re too lazy to dig them out of your fish and chicken
