I only have a few days left of my World Race journey so I wanted to share a few of my most memorable experiences (in list form of course more or less from less favorite to most favorite)…
11. Moments (that are not included in any other list):
Hitchhiking and fitting 11 people into the bed of someone's truck in the DR
When one of my teammates was confused about the shape of the Be Like Brit building
Watching as our contact bribed a border crossing guard to get us into Ukraine
Watching 7 de laan with mikayla and sister fisher every night
Girls day in Budapest trying every good treat possible
Feedback in the dark
Fringe/arrow mini marathons in our hotel room in china
Our Peking duck dinner
Trying to come up with a new team name in Brasov
Team REAL day at the zoo and movie theater in Hyderabad
Spending 2 days in Beijing with one of my favorite people in the world 😉
10. Food:
Milk in Romania
Basically everything we had while staying at sister fishers house in SA
Vanilla cookies in Moldova
Hazelnut dark chocolate bars in Transnistria
FRUIT: pineapple in Philippines, tangerines in Mozambique, apples in china, oranges in South Africa
Egg fried rice in china
Broccoli with ouster sauce in china
Real pancakes with real syrup in Nepal and Philippines
Indian street bread
Szcheswan shrimp in China
9. Pretty things
Locks bridges in Odessa
Site seeing day around Cape Town
Brasov, Romania
Mountains in Nepal
The river up to Cativo in the DR
Beach in the DR
Xai-Xia, Mozambique
Drive to India debrief
Waterfalls in Philippines
8. Ministries:
Tutoring math in the Philippines
Womens bible study in Mozambique
VBS and teaching math in South Africa
The day of farming in the DR when I got to shovel dirt with Greg and drive a truck
Shoveling and moving dirt in Mozambique
Going to college ministries in Philippines
Building desks and benches in China
Construction in Haiti
7. Tourist things:
Mount Everest flight
Draculas castle in Romania
Hiking down to the waterfall and swimming under it in the Philippines
Scuba diving in philippines
Swaziland safari
Great wall
Shark diving in SA
6. God moments:
Hearing God talk to me during worship in the Dominican Republic
Worshiping God with a bunch of Filipino college students (in English!)
Every time I got excited about sometime I read in the bible
When I asked God a question and told Him I needed an answer by the end of the day and He gave me one… It wasn't the answer I wanted but it was exactly the answer I needed
When I watched God literally take my fear away in the Dominican Republic
Hearing God talk to me on the Great Wall of China
5. Travel:
Watching my rickshaw driver get slapped in the face
Hopping into the giant jeepnee while it was still moving in the Philippines
36 hour train ride in china
Riding in the bed of the truck in Mozambique
Britney spears dance party in a rickshaw in India with Sarah and Kristin
4. Kids:
The girl who looked Irish in Moldova
Brian from South Africa who spoke English to me
Little Filipino girl at Awana
Jackie in India
3. Lost in translation moments:
Asking when we were going to start working and having it turn into learning the Haitian word for giraffe
Hearing my translator say 'wear it like a shield over your head so you can protect yourself from all the angry birds' while translating a sermon
Trying to get our Nepalese contacts to understand what the word manna means
2. Exposure students:
Kristin
Mikayla
1. Team:
REAL
