Some of the most memorable and humorous things that only happen when U squad goes to Swaziland…
- Upon arrival hearing “we will have electricity within two weeks” and then 1.5 months later actually getting it.
- Having bottle flipping competitions with the 5-liter water jugs.
- Eating two hard boiled eggs and one scoop of oatmeal (mixed with LOTS of sugar and maybe even some peanut butter) every morning for breakfast.
- The whole month one having 50 people but only 7 chairs…
- Our butts were brown from the dirt covered ground.
- Breaking 4 chairs in the first week of having chairs.
- Having Swazi dirt EVERYWHERE.
- Handwashing your laundry right before a massive wind/dust storm… clothes were lost.
- Wanting to steal our hosts children.
- Manning (1.5 years old) and Azariah (newborn baby)
- Kumbi rides to Savemor.
- Getting proposed to every Kumbi ride.
- Breaking our month one budgets on snacks at Savemor… lemon cream cookies and Caribbean Island Balsamic Vinegar Lay’s potato chips. You can only find them in South Africa and Swaziland so they’re a must.
- Befriending the Nisela zebra.
- Getting bit by the Nisela zebra.
- Unfriending the Nisela zebra.
- Swapping poop stories week one.
- Constipation.
- Also, the opposite of constipation… ED.
- Getting slight culture shock at month one debrief in the South African mall.
- Bumping to the gospel music in church every Sunday while dancing with the kids.
- HAGaMnDa: Have a great ministry day
- Having all three showers full but taking turns turning the water on because the water pressure can’t handle it.
- Teaching our shepherd “The Church Clap.”
- Not taking an ice-cold shower for a week because the season decides to change from Summer to Winter in a day.
- Dish duty.
- Homemade peanut butter.
- Never being without music since over a third of our squad is musically gifted.
- Boiling the salty tap water to get the salt out of the water for a cup of instant coffee.
- Recruiting a search party to find the scorpion/giant spider in our room.
- Getting in the shower on a hot day excited for a cold shower and then it’s hot because the water tank is in direct sunlight.
- Finding a scorpion, a bat and multiple giant spiders in the bunk rooms.
- Mugg&Bean.
- Sweating uncontrollably for 3 hours straight at Swazi church.
- Ants.
- Laying around for a whole day exhausted from doing nothing but laying in your sweat.
- Cooking with Faith.
- The farm.
- Peanut butter and jelly every day for lunch… yum.
- Putting two live chickens on your head and walking home.
- Always hearing someone in the field worshipping their lungs off.
- Bathroom conversations.
- Raising two cats at the base… Fitz and Tiny.
- Waking up with the cat in your bed because it climbed through the window.
- The smell of burnt dead dog every time you leave the base.
- Sleeping in the loft for more “privacy”
- Really bad door handles that lock you in the room.
- Having no curtains on the toilet or shower stalls in bathroom #2… bonding.
- Pot bread.
- The pee tree.
- Fat cakes.
- When the malnourished dog doesn’t come back to the care point… you know.
- Jenna’s homemade coffee creamer.
- David and Jenna being the best.
- Trash fires.
- Poop deck worship.
