Currently Listening: Squad mates playing “Beautiful” by Phil Whickham
Hello from Nicaragua! We are currently in Granada, Nicaragua at Hotel Floresta and enjoying debrief. Debrief is the time after we finish in each country to just take time to relax and refill before the next country. We have been spending time with our Squad Leaders and Squad Coaches and just exploring the city and enjoy the company of each team.
It has been wonderful. Getting to talk and spend time with the squad that I just barely knew before heading off on this adventure has been refreshing for the soul. It has also been the most draining thing I’ve ever been apart of. The introvert, the shy girl, the quietness inside me has been having a panic attack. The loud, energetic, people loving side of me is just so happy to be around everything at once. If there is one thing that I have had to get used to it is constantly being around people. Constant. At every moment of everyday there is someone in arms reach. And since I spent my last 2 years as a janitor who saw a handful of people in a week, this is quite a shock to my system.
As I had a conversation with one of my best friends today(hint:Her name rhymes with Shmendell Perkun) I was struck with lack of words. I was trying to just explain the atmosphere, the way time turns, the maturity of the people around me and I found that I could explain how I was feeling or thinking. I’m not usually at a loss for words. I like to pride myself in being a wordsmith and I found myself just…rambling…and pausing a lot….and most likely not making any sense. I am in an atmosphere that is completely different thank anything I’ve been apart of before. And I thought I knew community.
This has been an adventure, of course, I knew it would be. And the more and more I am apart of this life “…in your heart you begin to understand…there is no going back…”
