A big part of the World Race is community. We come into communities as a community of believers. Though we came into this not knowing anything but what we learned through quick chats or online profiles, we see how people come from this experience with best friends, bridesmaids, and lifelong sisters and brothers. These first couple of weeks has really pressed me having so much community atmosphere. Going from my two bedroom home where I lived alone and could go days without much interaction with more than one person at a time, this is overload, in good and tough ways now.
I wanted to share a World Race trademark here. We have a daily time as a team, a family time. We have started calling it tears and tea or tear time. Being a team of all girls and having emotions running high being in such conditions, tears have seemed to inevitable from at least one of us. This has been a surprisingly healing time already.
A time for admittance of feelings, struggles, and needs. We give encouragement and grow as a sisterhood through appreciating each other. I am learning compassion, dependence, and receiving through these women. Our team name, Sozo, means Healer, and as we strive for healing and to be healers, we have begun to find it in this time of tears and encouragement.
I title this blog, “I’m glad you don’t snore” because that is just one piece of positive feedback I have received that really made me happy! You may laugh, but living is such tight quarters, that is a real thing to appreciate!
