From Iris Ministries full-time missionary, Jessie Turner:
• Having the ‘clean’ water be murky with bits in it...
• Hearing three or more languages that I don’t understand being spoken in one place...
• Having kids run up shouting my name and hugging me all day...
• Being stopped on the street by random people just want to talk to me in English…
• Marriage proposals by the market venders after I refuse to buy their fruit...
• Taking bucket baths everyday…
• Having the electricity go off at any given time...
• Sleeping under a mosquito net…
• Drinking coke out of a bottle…
• Squeezing a sand worm out of my roommate’s bum…
• Squeezing a sand worm out of my dog…
• Enjoying the beauty of a sunset over the Indian Ocean…
• Snorkeling on the reef I can walk to whenever I want…
• Having someone talk to you and pick their nose at the same time…
• Eating rice every day…
• Singing worship song in another language…
• Having our base dog attend all church services and ceremonies including weddings…
• Flushing the toilet with a bucket instead of the handle…
• Riding everywhere in the back of a camiao i.e. big truck…
• Having my feet be three different colors from my normal color to dirt and tan…
• Being paranoid about my knees showing…
• Seeing nursing mothers feed their babies anywhere without a covering…
• Seeing whole families going somewhere on motorcycle, mom on the back, two year old on the front…
• Having no idea what’s going on in the outside world with politics, entertainment ect…
• Not having to wear clothes that match…
• Wearing the same clothes all the time and having them washed by hand…
• Never leaving anything outside knowing if you do it will disappear…
• Greeting the guards every time you walk around the compound…
• Smearing cream on your roommates back because the mosquitoes ate her alive…
• Talking about your bowel movements in a normal conversation…
• Being able to squat anywhere and relieve yourself next to friends…
• Having all the guys on a camiao jump off and line up to go potty…
• Hearing Mozambicans singing Celine Deon or N’sync…
• Taking your trash out and watching people dig through it…
• Throwing your used toilet paper in a can and not flushing it…
• Watching the muddy water come off your hands as you wash them…
• Watch your ‘tan’ fade as you shower…
• Eating dinner with your hands, maybe rinsing them off in water everyone else has just used…
• Answering to ‘Acunyah’ ‘Voce’ ‘Hey Lady’ ‘Weh’ ‘Mana Matapa’…
• Hearing ‘Gud Morning’ at any time of the day…
• Having your shirts turn different colors b/c of all the kids you hugged that day…
• Holding the hand of a kid you watched just wipe his nose with it…
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