EUROPE!!!!!
Here is to the past 3 months of my life. Reality is that the race is tougher than you could ever imagine yet it is so rewarding in soooo many ways
1) You realize that no matter how hard you try, you will always end up with dirt under your nails. Thank God for manicure sets that you put to good use EVERYDAY!!!!
2) Your clothes will for the most part always smell. Washing machines in other countries just aren’t the same.
3) Squatty potties… IM DEFINITELY OVER! and guess what, i have 7 more months of them. praying for a good attitude.
4) Teammates have become family. I have moved from having to love them into getting and wanting to love them. I genuinely loved my old team. Oh yeah by the way, I got a new one. They are sooo incredibly awesome. I stayed with Garrett and Rachael and picked up Tom and Casey (the married couple), Brittany, and Anmari.
5) Little things make you happy. Like finding dried bananas, your favorite shampoo, or finding STARBUCKS.
6) You get so tired of your vacuum seal bags and seeing your stuff explode everywhere after you open them.
7) You pick up accents from every country. And start to speak in simple sentences with simple words. You forget when speaking to family back home that you can use complex sentences and complicated words. hahaha
8) Pepto becomes your favorite candy. And hand sanitizer is kept in your back pocket.
9) Getting together with the squad is like being on a college campus. There are friends everywhere.
So these are just a few quirks of the race. Some of them are good and some of them are tough. But honestly, I would not trade anything to be where I am at right now. Sitting in Africa, writing a blog (well maybe not the blogging thing), hearing kids playing outside, getting ready to preach a sermon by the seat of my pants, hearing Casey and Brittany talking, listening to Garrett practice the guitar, hearing my stomach growl in anticipation of the lunch to come, feeling the cool African rain season breeze, drinking my kenyan tea, and having Pastor Joel bring in some sugarcane as a snack. T.I.A…. this is Afica, ain’t no other place i’d rather be.
