*Flying to Brazil and having an extra 5 hours in your day
*Looking like polka dotted humans because of the 109 mosquito bites on only one half of one leg..
*Living with people who have alligators as pets - and playing with them!!
*People having tortoises as pets - and then eating them!
*Jumping off a boat and swimming in the Amazon River
*Having a Brazilian treat (Asaii) which stains every part of your mouth purple and having it taste like ground
*Losing stranger's underwear into the Amazon while trying to get it out of he rain - and then having to try and explain that using sign language...
*SEEING PINK DOLPHINS!!!
*Swimming in the main Amazon River while fish bite the mosquito-bite-scabs off your legs
*Because of their very bad drainage system - going to the toilet and throwing your toilet paper into an open bin beside the toilet in a very small and very hot cabin so that the next person can see&smell exactly what you did..
*Using the bathroom in the middle of the night in the dark just to run out with your pants on your knees because the fire ants invaded your toilet paper!!
*Eating sausage made from blood
*Eating an orange that looks like a lemon..
*Having cashew nut juice and trying to pretend you like it while it tastes like vomit
*Having chicken hearts on a stick
*Seeing an ant as big as half your thumb
*Sleeping with 60 people on one floor of a boat - all in hammocks on the Amazon River for 6 days
*Having conversations with people not understanding a word - miming! :)
*Driving like a maniac - and that while on the wrong side of the road
*Eating the root of a plant that could poison us when eaten raw
*15 people canoeing back from the tribes on the Amazon in the middle of the night without any light while boats pass in the other direction
*60 year old man giving his heart to Christ and receiving the Holy Spirit - when Jesus interprets his heart!!
*Walking to an orphanage in knee-deep water - which is suppose to be the road
*People not knowing how to throw a paper into a bin - but instead throw it into the beautiful jungle or river
*7 people staying together in one 2X1meter room
*Finally learning Portuguese just to find out we're leaving for Spanish countries - and having Spanish lessons while on a boat
*Having coffee so strong your tongue goes into spasm and the people only have cups as big as your big toe
*Having different fresh bread rolls and chocolate milk for breakfast every day for a week!
*Having home made syrup-jam made from something that looks like a parasite growing on a tree - and LOVING it!
*Using "Google Translate" to hear prayer requests
*Swimming around a boat on river when finding out you just swam through the sewage discharge area...
*WITNESSING MANY "DIVINE APPOINTMENTS" END IN HEALING, MIRACLES, SALVATION AND FREEDOM!!! Whooooohoooo!
This is a life like no other!!!
This is Global Challenge 2013 ;)