If you consider yourself my friend/family, please read this.

This is for you. 

 

If you are reading this, this blog is for you. Coming home, I know a lot of you are going to ask me questions. And some of the most common questions will be “how was your trip?” “Did you have fun?” “What was your favorite part?” Please for my sanity, don’t ask these questions. I’ve been a little concerned about coming home, but maybe for a reason, you wouldn’t expect. I’m not sure how to adequately describe the past ten months in a way you’d understand without possibly getting frustrated with myself. 

 

When I say this, I don’t mean to come across harsh, but if you ask me a question be prepared to sit down and hear about it. I need you guys as my support to rally around me and help integrate back into the states, and that means asking intentional questions and giving your time to listen to what I have to say. If you do ask me how was your trip, my answer will be are you willing to sit down and hear about it, because “good” cannot describe the amount of things I have seen and done. 

 

So here is a list of 100+ questions you can ask me instead of a generic question when I go home. This list is me helping you, to help me 🙂

 

1. Who were your hosts month 1 and what were they like? 
2. How did you adjust to the race month 1?
3. Tell me about your team freedom runners. 
4. What was the hardest thing you dealt with in the Phillipines? 
5. What was your favorite thing that you did in the Phillipines? 
6. How were the Church concerts in the Phillipines? 
7. What was local transportation like in the Phillipines? 
8. What was the weirdest thing you ate in the Phillipines? 
9. What was ministry like in Thailand? 
10. What was the biggest struggle you went through in Thailand? 
11. What were the elephants like?
12. What’s it like to climb up a waterfall?
13. How did the Lord work in your life while in Thailand? 
14. Who are Wu, Wong, and Kai? 
15. How was it experiencing the lantern festival? 
16. How was it going to the hospital in Chiang Mai?
17. What is the story behind your tattoo on your left arm?(how and why did you get it)
18. What did getting that tattoo lead to? 
19. How was it taking a sleeper train from Thailand to Malaysia? 
20. What was it like walking across the Thailand/Malaysia border?
21. What is ATL? 
22. In Malaysia, what did ATL look like? 
23. What was langkawi like? 
24. What was it like evangelizing for the first time to a non Christian? 
25. How did the pizza party for the university students go?
26. How was your trip to the cave in the north part of Malaysia? 
27. Who was pastor quilan? 
28. How was your time in the city of Alor Setar? 
29. What were the university students like in Malaysia? 
30. How was your time in the city of Cameron Highlands? (Favorite beds of the race)
31. What did Christmas look like for you? 
32. What did New Years look like for you? 
33. What was the county of Lesotho like? 
34. Who are Jamie and John? 
35. What was the craziest thing you saw happen in Lesotho?(/on the race?) 
36. What was your food like in Lesotho?
37. How were the rock pools? 
38. What was it like riding a donkey? 
39. How did you grow in your relationship with the Lord? 
40. What was the scariest moment of Lesotho? 
41. Who was on your team Kainoserous? 
42. What was your ministry in Swaziland? 
43. How was it having all squad month and new team changes at the same time? 
44. What is shopping for 39 people for a full weeks worth of food like?
45. How was your 21 hour sleeper bus to Cape Town? 
46. What was it like experiencing a soccer match in Cape Town? 
47. How was manistry month? 
48. What was it like experiencing cage diving with great whites? 
49. What was your ministry for the month? 
50. What was youth group like there? 
51. Who was your host in Cape Town?(ocean view is the actual city) 
52. What is “awakening”? 
53. What was “awakening” like? 
54. How did you feel about giving a talk at Awakening about “calling peoples hearts back to God”?
55. What was your layover in New York City like? 
56. What was it like living on Ometepe island? 
57. How was it digging holes for plantain trees? 
58. How was your weekend at the backpacker hostel on the island? 
59. How was the city of  palacaguina? 
60. How was it playing baseball in palacaguina? 
61. Who was on your team, Egg? 
62. What was your ministry like in Costa Rica? 
63. Who are Beth and Bryan Tatum? 
64. What was it like having a chef who used to work at Disney world make every meal for you? 
65. What was it like being asked to volunteer to do massages for random people who were half naked? (Yes, this happened) 
66. How was the coffee farm in panama? 
67. Who is Enoch, and what is he like? 
68. What was your minsitry in Colombia? 
69. How did you celebrate the Fourth of July? 
70. How did going on the World Race change your view of God?
71. How did going on the World Race change your view of yourself?
72. Did you lose anything on the World Race?
73. Did saying goodbye to so many people make you want to open your heart to others or close your heart?
74. How did you take care of yourself on the World Race?
75. What is a debrief?
76. What did you enjoy about debrief in Bangkok, Thailand?
77. What did you enjoy about debrief in Nelspruit, South Africa?
78. What did you enjoy about debrief in San Jose, Costa Rica?
79. What did you enjoy about debrief in Medellin, Colombia?
80. What was it like checking off an African Safari on your bucket list?
81. Did you ever take overnight adventures during the World Race to different cities?
82. How did you do your laundry on the World Race?
83. What was it like being a treasure for two different teams? 
84. What did you miss most about your house back home?
85. Did you ever have a hot shower on the World Race?
86. Did you read your bible every day?
87. What were some of the songs you had on repeat during the World Race?
88. What is Team Time, and why did you have it almost every day?
89. What was it like going to the doctor oversees?
90. Did you enjoy the travel days?
91. How much did you miss your family?
92. What was it like living out of 2 backpacks, having to pack up at least once per month and carry everything on your back?
93. What is a bucket shower?
94. Who is Cody Harvey, and what kind of friend has he been for you? 
95. What were bathrooms like on the World Race?
96. How did you adjust to changing countries, currencies, languages, and cultures so often?
97. Did your Spanish improve over the five months you were in Central/South America?
98. Did you ever get emotional praying for people on the World Race?
99. Did you always go on adventures, on your adventure days?
100. Did you ever get to see movies in the theater on the World Race?
101. Did you ever get car sick on the World Race?
102. Did you always share a room with at least one person on the World Race?
103. Did you learn any new games on the World Race?
104. Where would you travel back too?
105. What was it like sleeping in 40+ beds?
106. Did you ever send a package home?
107. If you knew what you know now would you still do the World Race? 

 

If you made it this far, you are a good friend, and I appreciate you! If you have questions that are not listed here, ASK AWAY! This is just a list of suggestions 🙂

 

I know people are still going to ask how was it, and I’m going to have grace so please have grace with me if I don’t go into full detail off that one question. I have so many experiences I want to share with you all. 

 

I love you all. I’ll see you in roughly 40 days! 

 

shout out to my friend Ashley Collins for this brilliant idea! 

if you’re interested in following her, her blog link is 

ashleycollins.theworldrace.org