All For a Good Laugh
Oh the things that happen on
the World Race… here are some of my most awkward/biggest laughs on the race,
I hope you get a laugh out of them too.
The Dominican Republic– So during the month of the DR my team was
staying in the mountains and living a very domesticated life. One night after we finished eating dinner I
went around back and decided to wash my dishes. I must have been spaced out because I started washing my dishes in the
first black bin out back that I saw. After washing I asked my teammates if that was the dish washing bin only
to find out that my teammate Joe Bugg had just got done washing his dirty
underwear laundry in the bin I had washed my dishes in. My teammates had a laugh for a while!
Ecuador– One day when we were working at
this school in South, Quito I had just finished drinking my pop and decided to
throw it away. There are two bins for
trash at the school Inorganic and organic. I could not figure out which bin to throw my pop in so I said to my
teammate Justin, “Hey is my pop organic or inorganic?” He just busted up laughing at me.
El Salvador– I was watching the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie with some friends
and I got real thirsty after I ate a piece of popcorn. So naturally you learn to share everything on
the race without thinking twice about it, I grabbed my friend Nancy’s starbucks
and took a sip. Yeah there was definitely
something funky in the drink because I told her that it was kind of gritty and
slimy at the bottom. What I didn’t know
is that my friend Liliana had just spit her “Lugie” in the bottom of
the cup right before I had a sip!
Thailand– We were so blessed to have a washing machine in Thailand so that we
didn’t have to hand wash our clothes! Well I think during the lack of having a
machine I forgot how to wash my clothes or I was just having another spacy
moment. One night I went downstairs to
grab my laundry to hang dry them and as I started pulling the clothes out of
the washer I saw that everything I put in had been dyed pink! I now have a new
wardrobe consisting of eight pinks shirts thanks to my Thai maroon pants I put
in, and my team got a good laugh!
Kenya– On our way to our ministry site
from Nairobi our bus stopped at a rinky dink store and bathroom for a quick
brake. Well in case you didn’t know the
“bathrooms” in these parts are called squatty pottys and basically
consist of a hole in the ground and you aim. So I decided to take a short call to the bathroom and forgot my
sunglasses were hooked to the front of my shirt. Needless to say I left the bathroom with no
sunglasses because they had accidently fallen down the squatty hole and there
was no getting them out!
These are just some of my awkward
moments among singing karaoke during bar ministry in Thailand, falling off my
bike into the ditch while I was riding through the Andes Mountains, or eating a
cockroach in Bangkok! The Lord has definitely blessed this year with good times
in ministry as well as laughs from the most ridiculous moments!
