Total Number of Countries Visited: 15 (11 original, route change to Kenya, overnight layover in Qatar, and two fun side trips to Costa Rica and Singapore)
Favorite Continent: Asia
Favorite Country: Thailand
Runners up: Nepal, Rwanda and Honduras
Least Favorite Country: India
Runners up: Nicaragua and Malaysia
Most Beautiful Country: Nepal
Runners up: Rwanda and Malaysia
Types of Ministry: Home visits, street kids, worship, preaching, trafficking, leading Bible studies, living in children’s homes or orphanages, teaching English, praying for the sick, Red-light district/prostitution, door-to-door evangelism, sports, prison, slums, manual labor, painting, tutoring, counseling, trash dump, VBS, nursing homes/elderly, dramas, hospital, prayer walks/drives, church conferences/revivals and teaching nursery school.
Favorite Types of Ministry: human trafficking, prison, street children
Favorite Foods: Pad Thai, rotee, papusas, fresh fruit smoothies, coconuts
Least Favorite Foods: dried fish curry, white rice, chicken hearts, boiled plantains, tea with milk in it, ugali
Modes of Transportation: 20 (Jet plane, propeller plane, van, car, bus, back of truck, train, cab, tuk tuk, song tow, bike taxi, motorbike, matatu, rickshaw, motor boat, sail boat, banana boat, bicycle, elephant, horse)
Record for most people in one van: 39
Number of “beds” I slept in: 57 (hostels, tent/sleeping bad, airport floors, church pews/floors, overnight buses/flights/trains, bunk beds, hotel, cot, couch, etc. This means I packed and unpacked at least 57 times.)
Critters I lived with: lizards, frogs, rats, cockroaches, flies, mosquitos, bats, scorpians, spiders, crickets, snakes, ants, bed bugs and lice
Languages: 11 (Spanish, Thai, Khmer, Tamil, Malay, Mandarin, Kinyarwandan, Swahili, Arabic, Nepali, Telegu)
Currencies: 14 (USD, limpidas, cordobas, colonees, baht, riel, ringgit, Singapore Dollar, Francs, Shillings (Ugandan, Kenyan and Tanzanian), Rupees (Nepali and Indian))
Favorite Debriefs: Siem Reap, Cambodia (for the nice hotel), and Granada, Nicaragua (for the delicious food).
My Favorite Adventures: Seeing Mt. Everest, bungee jumping and canyoning in Nepal, riding elephants and petting tigers in Thailand, attempting to surf in El Salvador, seeing Angkor Wat at sunrise in Cambodia, snorkeling in Zanzibar and riding horses on the beach in Nicaragua
Hardest Parts of the World Race: Lizards everywhere, public transportation/motion sickness, allergies, never having any alone time, ice cold bucket showers
Favorite People I Met: The street boys in Honduras, the prostitutes in Thailand, my nursery school students (especially the Grinch), and children at Challenge Farm and Asha Nepal. Plus so many of our wonderful contacts.
Number of Teams I was on: 4
Months I was a Team Leader: 7
Things I Missed the Most From Home: My family and friends, of course. Mexican food, my car, Target, college football, fountain Diet Cokes, DVR, clothes, hot showers, washer/dryer, dishwasher, and strangely, Twizzlers.
Most Memorable Ministry Moments: Preaching for the first time, leading the Challenge Farm Olympics, speaking to the prisoners in Cambodia, seeing people get saved during home visits in Rwanda, the slums in Honduras and Kenya, visiting the dump in Honduras, our lake date with the girls in Thailand
Favorite Memories: Songkran Festival (waterfight) in Thailand, the awesome end of the month celebrations we had in El Salvador, Cambodia and Kenya, debriefs, all the awesome beaches I was able to visit, watching the children dance in Uganda, running with the Kenyans, riding bikes everywhere in Cambodia, all the late nights I stayed up laughing with my teammates
