Our days here in Mozambique still consist of much of what I
blogged about last time, except the tropical storms have finally stopped! Its
still sunny, we still live in tents and eat rice and beans, we still machete
grass, and the children are still adorable. So I figured now would be a good
time to do an updated ´You Know Youre on the World Race When` blog… Month 7
Edition. Here goes. (P.S. excuse the punctuation, Keyboards in other languages
are confusing!) Sorry for the lack of pictures, the internet is… well, African 🙂
But first, pray for me this week! I got asked to preach in church on Wednesday night! aaahh!! Heres where Ill be preaching…
You know Youre on the World Race When…
-You cant sleep because you can only remember 49 states
(Sorry, Minnesota)
-You randomly catch yourself saying Thank You in Albanian.
-You have worship times in abandoned bars.
-You take day trips to other countries.
-You find your way around a country by buying a postcard and
pointing to places youd like to go.
-The grand prize in a squad contest is a jar of peanut
butter.
-Your team can read your journal, because they know
everything anyway.
-You stay up until 4am in a Romanian kitchen talking about
the depths of your soul to all your friends.
-You learn to cook for 25 people from scratch on a daily
basis.
-You find a scorpion in your laundry.
-You arrive at national borders and end up in unexpected
countries like Kosovo.
-You randomly stay overnight in the Middle East.
-You jump off a cliff into the Adriatic Sea.
-You hike for 5 hours at 14,000ft in the Andes Mountains.
-Your teammate gives you a tetanus shot in a coffee shop
after practicing on an orange.
-You start to say yall and youre not from the South.
-You cross over national borders on foot.
-You need to buy a separate folder for all your encouraging
notes.
-Your nighttime routine includes a mosquito killing spree.
-Three of your teammates have been robbed.
-Airline food and gifts (eye masks, earplugs, socks) are
like Christmas day.
-You find your way to the Duty Free perfume tester sections
in airports so you smell good on travel days.
-You run through a lightning storm because you heard someone
next door has Nutella.
-You pass the time at an African border by chasing sheep.
-McDonalds is a luxury meal.
-A five hour bus ride ends up being sixteen hours.
-You fit 30 people into a taxibus and break down 17 times in
20 minutes. No joke.
-You have an allergic reaction to Malaria meds.
-You go to the bathroom in a hole full of maggots.
-You fit 25 people in the back of a pickup truck in a
rainstorm and count it as a shower.
-You get called on to preach 18 minutes before service
starts.
-Your workout is macheteing grass.
-In the past 7 months you’ve had a tetanus scare, food
poisoning, a lung infection, tennis elbow, a sprained ankle, ringworm, and a
bacterial intestinal infection.
-You spend an evening digging out worms from your feet.
Just some of the fun adventures weve had so far!! Im sure with a month and a half left in Africa and then going off to southeast Asia, Ill have plenty more to share. Hope it made yall smile!
