Adventures WorldRace SethBarnes Sponsorship Giving

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My team and I gave our best yes to sharing the Gospel but we also gave our best yes to living in a foreign country for a month and investing in one another. So, aside from ministry, read some of my favorite memories with some almost making me pee my pants. 

 

  • We gave our best yes to time traveling.. Okay not really but really. Sitting on a plane for 20 hours straight and hopping through time zones will really make you feel like a time traveler. You leave on a flight at 9:50AM but 20 hours later it’s only 10:30PM on the same day. I couldn’t comprehend time or time zones. 

  • We gave our best yes to all starting the Secret Life of Walter Mitty on the plane at the exact same time so we could have a watch party. International flights have some pretty dang good movie options. 

  • We gave our best yes to eating weird foods… duck intestines? Have to say 5/10 wouldn’t necessarily recommend. If I had to live off of it for a month, I would. Just tastes like the Bugle chips with a side of celery / lettuce? Hah. It is weird. There was a fruit called durian. It tasted like the market smelled with a squishy texture. Rating: 0/10. 

  • We gave our best yes to eating food at a market restaurant where cockroaches crawled across the menu….. and our feet as we were eating. I have to say, the food was good though. 

  • We gave our best yes to trying to learn the language. For me, that looked like finding words that sounded like what I was saying in Thai… 

Example: pachow ooey pon was God bless you in Thai… So I could remember that phrase I came up with kachow, ooey gooey butter cake, ping pong. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t say kachow ooey pong at times. Also, I guess I kept saying I was twelve in Thai… not twenty. 

  • We gave our best yes to also eating 7Eleven cheesy “sammys (sandwiches)”

  • We gave our best yes to getting lice checks. None of us got lice (PRAISE BREAK), but it is a nightmare to think about for a girl whose hair is thicker than a bowl of oatmeal. 

  • We gave our best yes to finding bugs in not great places and lizards up your skirt (hahah @Madison)

  • We gave our best yes to getting waved onto a bus by Chinese people telling us to get on. Take note, it was like 2AM, it was a layover in Shanghai, China and all twelve of us were clueless as to where to go without our two leaders. Everyone else had gotten off of the plane except for them. We were frantic. They found us, obviously. Hah. 

  • We gave our best yes to riding on a songthaew on the highway and as local transportation everyday. Google a picture of it. Plot twist: your songthaew starts smoking on the highway on the way to the airport as you are leaving Thailand.. What do you do? I’ll tell you what we did, whipped that songthaew in neutral, pushed it to the side of the highway and then…got back on ten minutes later. Hahaha. 

  • We gave our best yes to looking dumbfounded at just about everything we saw.

  • We gave our best yes to eating fried pancakes from the market for our first night in Thailand as “dinner”. The workers started giggling at us. 

  • We gave our best yes to eating some sort of carb and fruit for breakfast every morning. Did I mention the banana muffins? 

  • We gave our best yes to almost getting ran over multiple times. I don’t say that lightly. When you hear the phrase “you just gotta go for it”, you apply that to walking across traffic. “Just go for it” in hopes that they stop. 

  • We gave our best yes to falling asleep in the coffee shop next to our ministry host because we were #dead. 

  • We gave our best yes to lathering on bug spray like it was perfume. 

  • We gave our best yes to get tattoos… 9/14 of us are #tatted. Peer pressure? Not really. On a serious note, most of them were things that were spoken over us or the Lord was speaking to us. Maddie sounded like she was giving birth when she got hers. Madison held my hand so hard that she left imprints on my hand. 

  • We gave our best yes to listening to Nicole and Ashley whip out their recorders to play Hot Cross Buns or My Heart Will Go On.

  • We gave our best yes to singing random songs in Thai. I had no idea what Madison and I were singing but sounded interesting . 

  • We gave our best yes to runway shows in the girls room. Sometimes you have to improvise. Nothing more needs to be said. I wish other people could understand. HAHAHAHAH. 

  • We gave our best yes to having your friends check and see if it’s heat rash or bed bug bites. HEAT RASH HALLELUJAH.   

  • We gave our best yes to choreographing a RIDICULOUS dance to “I am a “c” (DJ Promote Party Edit) in front of the other World Race Semesters teams during debrief. I could not hold it in. Video to come, don’t worry. 

  • We gave our best yes to being flooded with various emotions and not knowing how we actually feel. @ Maddie, thank the Lord you are an emotional wreck too. Are we crying because we were laughing or because we were sad? Probably both. 

  • We gave our best yes to laughing at stupid jokes… one time on the airplane we had to land in Seattle due to some complications and the pilot over the speaker said the details were still up in the “air”… I died. It was unintentional but cracked me up. 

  • We gave our best yes to singing Doxology every day on the way to and from ministry.

  • We gave our best yes to doing shabooya roll call in the room..

  • We gave our best yes to quoting Hot Rod, Talladega Nights, and Anchorman 2. 

  • We gave our best yes to eating curry until our whole body heated up and our lips felt like they are chapped because of how spicy it is. 

  • We gave our best yes to giving Claire advice on how to pee when you are in the car… Plastic bag? Cooler? Bottle? Good thing we made it to a gas station. Barely.

  • We gave our best yes to sit down. Sweat. Walk. Sweat. Breathe. Sweat. 

  • I personally gave my best yes to being kicked out a room during an interview because my friend and I couldn’t do anything but laugh at each other.