Funny World Challenge article

You know you've been on a World Challenge when...

1. It takes you a fortnight to get the dirt out of your neck.
2. You can fold your pillow into four.
3. At breakfast, you need to know when, where and what lunch will be, so you know how much to eat now.
4. Ditto for lunch at tea etc.
5. You find it hard to pack more than 3 t shirts for a holiday, even a year later.
6. You slept in your clothes. At least once.
7. You notice that you can flush a toilet and thank god for it.
8. You wake up praying that the condensation on the tent isn't going to hit you in the face again, but it does.
9. You know that no matter how much stuff you have, it will all fit into your rucksack, with absolutely no room to spare every time.
10. You nearly cried when someone gave you half a melted Snickers bar.
11. Whatever food it was, you wanted more. Kidney beans, salted popcorn, whatever.
12. You think twice about whether to order salad because the water it was washed in may not be safe.
13. You get used to the taste of iodine water.
14. You know you should always be in a group of at least 4 people.
15. You can turn 10 days until we go home, into 2 days - today doesn't count, the 2 days R&R don't count, the 3 days travelling don't count, and tomorrow's the last day of trek, so that doesn't count.
16. You go away on holiday and automatically think that a pair of knickers can last 5 days and can prove it by showing the different ways of wearing it.
17. You forget that you will not have to carry all of your luggage everywhere you go.
18. You remember places by how cheap the food was.
19. You can feed yourself for $4 in these places, if necessary.
20. You burst into tears when you see something incredible, like a duvet cover, or a shower.
21. You get mad at people complaining about school dinners...they know nothing.
22. You know what McDougals/Beanfeast is, and would rather just have the pasta on its own.
23. Someone says that surely it was a 'character building' activity.
24. You can say you have truly been on a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
25. A plastic bag is not just used for carrying things.
26. You're satisfied if the hotel/hostel actually has beds.
27. You use less toilet roll to make it last longer.
28. All you talked and wrote in your journal about for a month was food.
29. All your sentences started with "When I get home..."
30. You still check your rucksack hasn't fallen off the top of the bus.
31. You know what "diamox fingers are"
32. You wake up in the same position you fell asleep.
33. You called the people in your tent "mummy" at least once.
34. The first thing you do when entering a new city is look for internet cafés.
35. Your hands don't feel clean unless you've used anti-bac.
36. You know what anti-bac is.
37. You had to throw away some of your clothes, and were glad to see them go.
38. Your swimwear counts as underwear.
39. A 10 hour bus journey seems quite short.
40. One of the team has spent their 17th birthday on top of a mountain.
41. Cold baked beans and tortilla chips become your favourite lunch time snack.
42. When you can regale your family with the horrendous toilet habits of certain members of your group.
43. When you go home with a Vendetta against ANY type of insect.
44. When you can take a tent down/put it up, in about 5 minutes flat.
45. You've actually seen someone get excited at the prospect of having spam for lunch.
46. You realise you can get mars, snickers and pringles anywhere you go.
47. You get really excited about a hot shower.

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