NOTE: Sorry I haven’t written any new blogs lately. Due to various reasons I had to wait till I got home. So I’m going to post blogs that I’ve had written for awhile but wasn’t able to post until now. Enjoy!
Only on the World Race will you ask yourself, and others if this is really your life.
- In a week or less you have been to Rwanda, Uganda, Qatar, Hong Kong, and China.
- You suddenly see technology everywhere and remember that you don’t have to act like you don’t have any.
- 34+ hours on a train are normal and adventuress.
- You can find your way around Hong Kong and home after going down town once (you learn places quick on the race).
- You can buy train tickets in Hong Kong and it’s easier than you thought…once you know where to find them.
- You arrive to meet your contact and discover that you’re not where you thought you were going to be for ministry.
- Rather than living in a Chinese city you are living in a Tibetan village!
- You arrive in China, go live in a Tibetan village, learning Chinese, meet our contact’s wife who is Peruvian, go to a Chinese restaurant in the Tibetan village, notice many signs are in the Tibetan language, meet a girl from India, and hang out with your teammates who are from America and Mexico. Yes that is 6 different cultures and peoples in one day! How awesome is life on the race!
- Could you have to figure out how to turn power back on to the apartment in Chinese. Thankfully after several calls to our contact and a few days later (and making sure you have the correct electric card) the power is back on!
- The guys play basketball with the monks.
- Sometimes the only way to speak to someone in English is to teach them English. Thankfully most people we ran into had some of the basics down already.
- Have fireworks go off right out your window…because someone just moved out, moved in, got married, died, gave birth, had a birthday, or just cuz. – makes me glad we were not there on the new year.
- Will a taxi cost 13 cents to go across town (a 5 min. drive).
- Have to find out how to turn the power back on to the apartment…and no one speaks English…
- 3 day, many calls to our contacts and the power place later was it discovered that I had the wrong power card…the correct one was delivered to me later in the day and our power came back on! Adventures in China!
- With past experience of no one you need speaking English, writing out a note in Chinese that says I need 7 bus tickets for tomorrow morning… only to have the ticket lady ask me in perfect English “are you trying to say tomorrow morning here? Because you forgot a dash right here.” :/
