LADEMIES and GENTLEMANS
…at least that’s how I would have said it if I were still 5.
It’s about to get real personal. Because if it’s one thing I am not afraid of, it’s letting you into my mind.
I have gone from leaving everything I know behind to traveling around the world with (truly) TOTAL STRANGERS. And in efforts to make it a little easier, they dwindled down our crazy group of 44 into teams of 6. Six people stuck together and shipped out of the US to serve God in 11 different, completely foreign countries. Cra-Z-iness. But, these strangers have in fact become my family. And nobody messes with my family. Except for maybe our Z-Fam squad leaders…
So the time has to come. The time where racers are once again ripped from the things they know and placed amongst a group of strangers (except for maybe they aren’t “total” this time).
To give you an idea of the thoughts that were originally going through my head, I have included an excerpt from my personal journal.
“I feel like you deserted me. Like you want me to feel anxious. Like you singled me out and you deemed me worthy of punishment. I don’t understand why I was the only one on my former team that was moved. It’s like I was too happy there to possibly go on. Like, maybe, all this year is going to be about for me is unfamiliarity and discomfort. I just don’t understand.”
For those of you who know my new team, you will find these former thoughts funny. Because if you really knew me, you would know that I am obsessed with my new team. And by obsessed, I mean like obsessed. We eat together at every meal, we look forward to team time every night, we get weaves/braids together and we sure as heck talk some ghetto talk together.
Meet my new team “Sound of Strength” (and man oh man is this name both fitting and prophetic).
Sara Norton – our fearless leader, Maggie Lavigne, Kat Davis, Shannon Meador AND Jessica Fischbach
