Hello everyone!
So I’ve come home from the field early. About two months early actually. Due to the nature of COVID-19 around the world, Adventures in Missions have made the decision to take all over seas squads off the field and bring us all home.
To be completely honest, I’m devastated. I don’t wanna be home. There was so much more I was looking forward to in Thailand. I’m crazy thankful that I at least got to experience it for two weeks. However, Thailand is the reason I signed up for this route. The country I was most looking forward to.
It’s also heart breaking because I’ve had to say goodbye to my team earlier than I wanted. We had made a list of adventure days we wanted to spend together and we couldn’t get a lot of them done. I’m sad not to wake up to them anymore, be around them the whole day, laugh with them. I miss them a lot. They’d become family so having to say goodbye early feels like a punch to the gut if I’m honest.
I don’t want anyone reading this thinking I’m ungrateful. I’m thankful that AIM wants all their racers safe and made this hard decision to bring us back home. I’m thankful to be apart of an organization that cares so much about its participants. It’s just a very sad time at the moment, not even just for me but for all the squads ending our races early.
I have a blog I’ve been working on for a bit that’ll post very soon about my whole experience. It’s a weird and hard transition coming back to the states. Having a room to myself is very very weird and not having lots of people around 24/7 is odd too. Not having my team around makes me extremely sad if I think about it too much. My heart has been very heavy since coming home.
Thank you to everyone that has supported me throughout this journey. I’ve had such an amazing time traveling for the past 7 months. I’m sad it ended early but I’m grateful for the time I had.
See you soon!
-Chelsea
