To Do in Nsoko:
a brief list of activities if you live in the middle of nowhere with 43 other 19-21 year-olds…
– Burn trash
– Throw lit matches at each other
– Play the same card games over and over. and over.
– Run. For a really long time
– Walk for even longer time
– Sit in Hammocks for the longest amount of time
– Sleep
– Watch movies (if you like No Escape, your entire squad will judge you)
– Drink water
– Climb water towers and various other farm equipment
– Get a haircut from emma
– Sock wrestle
– Bake (but only with butter, flour, and water)
– Maybe do a face mask
– Push each other into piles of empty water jugs
– Spray bug spray at ants on the wall and watch what happens
– Make a botanical garden house out of a water jug for banana spiders
– Put scorpions and preying mantises in a bottle to fight
– Hide kittens
– Bury kittens (not alive)
– Capture the flag in the mud
– Set snakes on fire (I took no part in this one)
– Sardines
– Chase baby chickens
– Throw rocks at ugly chickens
– Play signs
– Attack each other over clothespins
– Fight over cookies
– Fight about who ate more than their share of 3 eggs even if you don’t like eggs
– Consider writing a blog
– Go to the grocery store for no reason other than to be somewhere that is not the team house
– Film live-action veggie tales
– Hold a mock wedding (congrats bill and abby)
– Skateboard with little Swazi friends next to cars going 120
– Streak in a cyclone
– Create trivia solely about yourself for other people to guess for a prize
– Watch nature (sunsets, sunrises, stars, rain, lighting, various other sky formations)
– MASH
– Climb trees
– Make each other late to ministry by piling on top of them on their bed
– Walk to the train tracks. Walk back.
– Buy cookies at Savemor to hand out on the way home. We love buying friendship 🙂
– Sweep (still not clean)
– Draw pictures of mady
– Sit around the bonfire for hours (why is fire considered an activity? Actual question.)
– Melt metal spoons and Birkenstocks in said bonfire
– Throw rocks at random objects (top rung of the monkey bars is surprisingly hard to hit from sitting in the shade)
– Host parties for anything (cinco de mayo, 2/3 birthday parties, etc.)
– Feed people gross spaghetti disguised as churros
– Sit and wonder when the water and/or power will come back on
– See how many dishes we can pile before someone has to dry them
– Drink grape juice out of wine glasses
– Have dance party with headlamps in the shower stalls
– Make popcorn 12 times a day
– Name the goats that wander around (rip Michael – Take your 3rd shower of the day
– Fill the laundry bucket to use as a swimming pool/bathtub
– Wash your clothes while sitting in a mud puddle
– Decide not to wash your skirts. Ever.
– Wash other people’s clothes while sitting in a mud puddle
– Sign up for chess with Ethan
– Feed Manning watermelon
– Try not to get bit by the zebra
– Find Erin
– Ask Erin to sew your sleep shirt
– Have a spa day in the laundry buckets (laundry buckets are highly versatile)
– Sit on top of the storage containers
– Pretend you’re not bored
– Ask the cook when dinner will be ready even though it’s only 2 pm
– Create a team time where you’re required to sit at the table and participate in conversation
– Draw a portrait of your team as mermaids
– Role play (to clarify; only abby does this)
– Create alter egos
– Get shirts with each other’s faces printed on it
– Burn off your leg hair with matches
– Pierce Hannah’s ears
– Sit in a circle in the kitchen and maybe talk about future husbands
– Wonder what’s happening culturally in America (who’s president these days? Do people still think xxx is alive? How are Chip and Joanna doing?
I don’t know that you could get used to this if you tried
– L
