Last night during announcements Katey informed us that we’d need to hang on to our communion cups as we’d need to reuse them to take stool samples to check for parasites. You should have seen the look on some of the squad’s faces. It was priceless!
In reality we were all given tiny cups with lids to collect a stool sample that we then took to the local clinic. It’s much cheaper to get tested here and since so many of us have had intestinal problems this year we all went ahead with testing. Over two-thirds of the squad have some sort of parasites crawling around in their intestines.
According to Wipkepdia: “Parasites can get into the intestine through the mouth from uncooked or unwashed food, contaminated water, or hands, or by skin contact with larva infected soil.” YUCK!
This afternoon Gabe and I were sitting in a restaurant with a window right by us. World Racers kept stopping by to chat through the window. It made me laugh as I realized how many conversations we had at the restaurant through the window about our stool samples. Only World Racers feel comfortable about doing that. How are we going to be able to return to America when we’re so used to being free with our “bowel talk”?
