First off, to my subscribers, I’m sorry for blowing up your email as of late with all these blog posts, but it is for a good reason as my squad (P Squad) is competing against the other 2 squads in squad wars.
Squad wars is a friendly competition between the squads that begins about 2 months before training camp with all kinds of virtual competitions, and so this new challenge is to see how many blogs each squad can write in the next 3 weeks, so as you can see I’m doing my best to help out my squad for we are sitting in second place at the moment with 900 points.
Squad wars will continue well into training camp with a bunch of physical challenges such as a dance off, dodgeball, and other competitions one of which tho I wish would be tug of war as I know P squad would kill in that competition (plus my squad has a challenge among our squad about who would win at tug of war between Brooke and I). I am so happy that I am on a very competitive squad. With that being said……
ONE MONTH TIL TRAINING CAMP YIKES!!!!!!!
Wow…… that is hard to believe especially since it seems like yesterday I had just gotten the phone call while at work that I had been accepted in the World Race, and texted my best friend after the call to tell her first.
I’m not gonna lie for I am freaking out just a bit as I still have no clue how to pack my backpack, but I do know that I’m packing as light as I can. I have a sense of nervous anticipation for I have an idea of what to expect from training camp as I’ve been reading other racers blogs about training camp to a baseline idea of what’s going to happen, which for the most part sounds fun except for the fitness hike.
I am dreading the fitness hike, not so much the hike itself as that will be no problem for me, but its the time limit that scares me, and I really don’t want to risk blowing my chance to go on the race all because of the failing to compete the hike in the amount of time (2.2 miles in 38 minutes) I don’t want to sound pessimistic about it (sorry can’t help it for I am Presbyterian after all hahahaha), but still no matter how much I pray about it, I’m still freaked out about passing it.
Other then that, Yeah I’m excited for training camp. especially to be able to finally meet all my squadmates in person. I have been praying about who I feel God calling to be on my team with me. I have a few fellow squadmates in mind that I would love to be on the same team at some point during the race with just based on looking them up on facebook as well as talking to them via Skype and chats on groupme, and I know that I might have some say about who I think I get along with the best by means of all the team building things that we will do at training camp, ultimately it is up to our leaders through lots of prayer who will be on each team.
Besides trying to physically prepare for the race, I have already been preparing spiritually as well. There have been many sermons preached by Pastor Rob that have hit me right in the gut, and made me question parts of my life, but at the same time confirmed things that I had been seeking answers to in my prayers especially the times that I have questioned his motives behind me embarking on this mission, and helping to ease my doubts and fears about this new adventure that I am about to go on. I can see that God is already breaking me down in order to build me up stronger to do his service, and I know that training camp will also add to that feeling as well.
One thing that I know for sure is that the door continues to slowly close on my retail career as I now have 3 months till God totally closes that chapter of his plan for me, and I have accepted that fact graciously. September 28th will be my last day on the job. I have also been starting up the grad school search once again so that I can have a list of both schools & programs that I can be praying about while I’m gone to help me try and figure out what my purpose in life is gonna be. I have been out of college for over 10 years, and still have yet to go to grad school, so yeah I better get on that as getting my Masters is something that is an important goal in my life especially since both of my parents have theirs, so in a way it is kinda expected for me to get mine at some point.
But I am proud to say that I did compete my Photography certificate, and received that back in May.
I am also proud to say that I have gotten almost all of my vaccines as I only have 4 more vaccines (typhoid, MMR booster, Cholera & flu) to go! Which is good since I think my body is starting to hate me for getting it poked so much.
my list of vaccines that I have gotten now: Meningetis, yellow fever, rabies, Hep A&B/DPT/Polio boosters and Japanese Encephalitis.
So yeah all in all, I am excited for training camp (minus the fitness hike)
Til next time your fellow sister in Christ,
Bonnie
P squad
Psalms 18:2
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