Welp. It’s official, folks. I, Heaven Albritton, am a future World Racer! It’s been a long time coming to get me here, but I could not be more excited to be here and writing this blog!
I first discovered the World Race when I was an 18 year old college freshman. The idea of traveling the world for 11 months straight with a bunch of other young people like myself fascinated me. The idea of going on the World Race seemed exotic and exciting to me. But alas, as an 18 year old I was too young to go on the race, and so I continued on through college.
By the time 21 came around (the minimum age to participate in the World Race) I was already a senior in college and I had basically forgotten all about the World Race and how it had been something I longed to do. College graduation came and went, and I applied to graduate school. Now after nearly one year of being in graduate school I again began to think about what I might like to do after I graduate with my masters degree this December.
My immediate thought was to apply for a doctoral program. I mean, why not? I’m good at school. I know how to do school. I’m comfortable continuing on in school. I’ve been in school since age 2, so what’s three more years, right? I got to work finding a program I liked and immediately started working on my application essay. I got about 3/4ths of the way through the essay and then I stopped. I’d come back to the essay a few weeks later, write ten words and then stop again. You have no idea how FRUSTRATING that was for me. I mean, at this point in life I’m basically like a professional student. And yet I couldn’t finish a simple 1000 word essay.
Fast forward to about four weeks ago: It’s a typical Saturday morning in the Albritton house. Mom’s praying, the kids we’re fostering are watching cartoons, brother’s at work and my sister and I are laying in her bed talking like we hadn’t seen each other for years. All of the sudden I just randomly said ” I think I wanna do the World Race”. I honestly don’t know where those words came from. It was something that I had talked about doing years before, but I hadn’t thought about it in years either.
Just days later I began the process to apply and interview for the World Race, and here I am now! At this point in my life the idea of the World Race is actually kinda scary. The idea of the World Race sounds a little bit uncomfortable. But the idea of going out into the world to share the love of God? Nothing compares to that idea.
~Heaven
