Covid-19 has taken so much from so many people. It has turned everyone’s life upside down and sideways. Making life harder to live like we normally live.
Covid-19 took my race from me.
Ironically, I was living in Asia when this virus started spreading like wildfire. This thing started in China and I was so close to it but I never would have been able to guess that by the things happening around me. Thailand was so calm about this whole thing, I have to say that I’m impressed!
How did this virus take the race from me, you ask. Not how you would think. No one got sick or anything, thanks God. The Corona Virus was causing countries to close boarders and being outside the U.S. and very far from it, it was getting kind of risky for us racers to stay on the race.
I began to get updated from my amazing squad mentor of other squads getting sent home and just hearing that made my heart skip a beat. That terrified me. If squads are getting sent home, then this thing is getting real and there’s a possibility that my squad would get sent home too. That thought terrified me.
I had only been in Thailand for 2 weeks. That first week was with our parents for PVT. We had finally, kind of, gotten the hang of our new life and the culture in Thailand. My team and I loving ministry.
March 15th, at 8am we were all told as a squad that we would be sent home. The next morning we flew to the United States of America. We flew into LAX as a squad and planned to stay there and have an unplanned final debrief with our leadership team and give ourselves a few extra days to process leaving the field so early and each other. When we landed we were told that President Trump was strongly encouraging that people don’t congregate in groups larger than 10 people. Landing in LAX as a squad was the last time my squad; my family, were together.
We got notified the next day, the day we planned on starting our debriefing that it’s best to book flights home as soon as possible. Our extra cushion of time we had together got cut short once again. We were still able to have our debrief, it was just condensed into one meeting time frame.
I was originally planning on going home home on a Thursday but I ended up going home on a Wednesday. It was my first time flying alone.
I’ve now been home for almost a month. I’m just now posting this blog because it’s been pretty difficult. I haven’t reached out to anyone, I’ve been laying low, avoiding the topic of being home. I miss my sisters. I miss Gap W’s culture.
With all of that being said, I want to answer your questions. I want everyone to know how awesome my race was. So, please, drop any questions in the comments and I will answer them in another blog in a week or so.
I’m also still planning on writing more blogs, just because I’m home doesn’t mean blogs are over.
