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  1. We are in Romania and there are beautiful flowers everywhere and horse and buggies and I love it!!! Also, the older women are so cute and give you a kiss on both cheeks as a greeting.
  2. We are working with Hope Church and Pastor Raul Costa and this church believes in prayer and Pastor Raul believes in testing your faith and asking hard questions and it’s so great. I could use a few more people like him in my life.
  3. It’s all squad month, which means you get all the perks like having your friends around you who may not be on your team and workout sessions are like YMCA classes, but it also means that the kitchen is anxiety-inducing and finding a space to be alone is nearly impossible unless you stay up till about 2:30AM. Oh and don’t get me started on the Internet situation.
  4. Adventures in Missions starts sending you e-mails to help you with re-entry and all your conversations start becoming about the future and you start to believe that life on the Race seems easier that life at home all of a sudden. Commence Operation: Denial. We’re never going home!

  5. As a Month 10 squad, you are the oldest squad on the field and you begin to panic because all these newbies are reading your blogs hoping to glean all this wisdom and insight, but truth be told, although you’ve learned so much on the Race, you realize that you have just hit the surface.
  6. Over the half of the women have taken up on Insanity (the workout program), so everyone’s sore. All the time. I hadn’t done in a year and a half and so I thought I was done when really I had just done the warm up smh.
  7. Some of the people here speak Spanish, so I actually get to practice a little bit of that thing that I minored in in my college years. Also, half the people here thing that I’m from Spain or Puerto Rico. Much love to my Hispanic brothers and sisters, but ya girl is not Hispanic.
  8. Sometimes I look at my squadmates and my heart fills with joy. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by the blessing that is my squad. God made some beautiful people and then knit our hearts together through the Race. #grateful
  9. Sometimes I catch myself being a travel snob and being unimpressed with amazing rivers and sites because they’re not as great as some other place that I’ve been to and I get Holy Spirit convicted to appreciate the beautiful world that God has made. Then, there’s times like last weekend when I get to see Roman ruins and I can’t believe how privileged I am. Please gaze in wonder at one of the Jesus fish signs left by the early church in the Roman empire!!!

  10. I am realizing that my Race has been incredible. The sights, the sounds, the stories, the squad, but it’s only been good because of the Lord Jesus Christ and the same one who called me on the Race will be with me after the Race, so I don’t need to panic. As our wristbands say: “God Got This!”