I’m so excited and sad to say that training camp is over. 
It has been a wild 10 days for sure! Jesus revealed to me something about myself and something I have done like all my life that I did without knowing, so I’m leaning on Him for guidance for the correction that needs to happen. I would share that but it’s too personal for me to share right now, maybe sometime in the future when I correct/overcome it! Training camp was amazing though, I met everyone I will be traveling the world and doing missions work with. I got to eat some food that I will get to eat while I’m away, which in case you’re not aware of the places I’ll go, is Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Thailand. We practiced “roughing it” with tent camping outside the entire time we were there, with the exception of 3 nights where it stormed bad enough that we got to sleep inside what was called the training center. The training center is where we spent our time for what are called sessions, where they would teach us worldviews or religions, share testimonies from the parents of past world racers, give us more information on packing, and it was also where we worshiped Jesus with all that we had in the evenings. We got to bond with each other during “squad time” and have dance offs or play team building games where we would talk after the game about how we can apply the fun game to something that might happen on the race. They taught us/helped us figure out how to teach English to kids and teenagers, which is what we will be doing some of the time we are in Guatemala. We had to use the restroom in porta-potties the entire time because the indoor toilets had a tiny septic tank and there were about 200 world racers there! The way we took showers was outside, in stalls, with a big bucket full of cold, hose water with a small cup. The cold water, I must say, was quite refreshing after a long day of sweating in the humid Georgia heat. We had the opportunity to hike 2 miles up and down some pretty big hills with our entire hiking backpack full of everything we brought with us and we had to do that whole thing within 38 minutes. If we didn’t make the hike in 38 minutes we had to re-hike it another time. So, with that being said, neither my squad or myself had to re-hike it, thank God! However, there were a few people on other squads going on different routes that had to re-hike it and I felt so bad for them! By the time day 10 hit, even though I love my squad and had fun with them, I was ready to go home and take a nice, hot, long shower, use a normal toilet, and sleep in my bed! Let me just tell you, my first shower back was AMAZING, I’m much more thankful for the toilets that flush now, and I slept SO good last night in my bed! I will never complain about anything small again while I’m home. God is so good! With this blog post being one of the first few I have done, I’m still figuring out how to do them. So, if anyone has any questions about anything, feel free to ask them in the comments and I can/will do a blog post with answers to the questions you have, if you have any. I will also take advice and recommendations for blog posts because I have no idea what I am doing. My thought with this post specifically was to kind of give an overview of training camp and maybe I will go more in depth with some things in another blog.
