One thing I love about the Race is the vast array of things we get to do and roles we get to fill each month. I’ve had the opportunity to try so many new things over the past 10 months, some of which I never thought I’d do in a million years. I’m about to head into month 11 (I know, right?!) which my team and I will be spending in the Amazon Jungle in Peru. I will for sure be updating this list at the end of this month, but for now here are 53 things I’ve gotten to be over the last 10 months of my life:
1. An english teacher.
2. A painter.
3. A worship leader.
4. A mime.
5. A scuba diver.
6. A CPR instructor.
7. A party planner (during ATL month our team planned an office Christmas party for a woman we met at church. It was a blast!).
8. A team leader.
9. A prayer warrior.
10. An artist.
11. A song-writer.
12. A basket weaver.
13. An interior decorator (on multiple occasions).
14. A motivational speaker.
15. A paraglider.
16. A babysitter.
17. A children’s entertainer.
18. A backpacker.
19. A reed fence builder.
20. A preacher.
21. A whitewater rafter.
22. An actress (my team once put on a Christmas play for over 300 orphans at an orphanage in Vietnam).
23. A cook.
24. A videographer.
25. A free hug giver (abrazos gratis, anyone?!).
26. An alligator hunter.
27. A bird watcher.
28. A street and door-to-door evangelist.
29. A fisherman (I even caught a piranha!).
30. A live hair mannequin (for girls all around the world… if you have hair, they WILL play with it!).
31. A lice checker.
32. A soccer player.
33. A surfer.
34. An IT assistant (I was able to help a little with a child sponsorship website in Swazi… I’m not actually that great with computers).
35. A card crafter.
36. A coffee shop enthusiast (a great outlet for ministry in Vietnam).
37. A star-gazer (one of my favorite things to do… those southern hemisphere stars, though!).
38. An African bush camper (complete with lions in our campsite and all).
39. An accidental fiancé (that awkward moment when you may or may not have been proposed to and you may or may not have said “yes” due to language barriers).
40. A horseback rider.
41. A donkey cart driver.
42. A nurse (Its not often that I’ve gotten to use my nursing skills on the race, but there have been a few occasions).
43. An expert packer (particularly at the very last minute).
44. A tourist.
45. An exotic food eater (some of which have included ants, crickets, horse, impala, crocodile, piranha, and some kind of dehydrated worm).
46. A green house builder.
47. A human jungle gym.
48. An explorer.
49. An instant coffee drinker (café gold is the way to go, y’all).
50. A skier (when I went snowboarding in the Andes I got to try skis for the first time… I think I’ll stick to snowboarding).
51. An expert sleeper (I can now sleep just about anywhere and on any surface).
52. A stow-away on a boat.
53. A world traveller.
