¡Hola!
Things are quickly coming to a close here in the Dominican Republic as I’ll be home in just 12 short days. With 14 more countries under my belt and a vast experience of other cultures my guess is you’ll have questions about what this last year has looked like for me. So here are some specific questions to give you an idea of things to ask when I get home. Some are serious, some are funny, but all relate to the past year of my life and will give you a better idea of what my experience was like. Let the inquisition begin!
General
What did you learn about being a believer this year?
What did you learn about being a leader?
What were some of your favorite moments with your teams? (Estuary & Overflow)
What places and moments broke your heart?
What places and moments did you feel most alive?
Who are your closest friends that you made on the Race, and why?
What were some of your worst living conditions? What were the best?
What ministry was the most challenging?
Which ministry was your favorite?
If you could live in any country you’ve been to, where would it be?
What was your favorite country and why?
What other countries did you go to that were not on your route?
What was your favorite continent?
What was your favorite country in each continent?
What was it like to live out of a backpack all year?
What were you most nervous about before you left?
What was one of the best days on the race? Worst day on the race?
Was it hard to leave each place and say goodbye each month?
What did you learn from being on an all-girls team? Co-ed team?
What were the biggest differences in being on an all-girls and co-ed team?
How did evangelism differ in each country?
Europe
What were your expectations of Eastern Europe before you got there? And what was the reality?
What was the hardest part of being in Europe?
What was the transition like into Europe from home? How was the homesickness?
What was it like to be with your whole squad in Romania?
What does ministry look like when you have 43 people in one place?
Ask me about hiking the mountain!
How was your trip to Greece?
What was the food like in each country?
Who were your favorite hosts? Why?
What fun things did you do in Europe?
Ask me about a ministry that interests you!
*Painting a kindergarten in Albania, and planning a whole vacation bible school, teaching English through Bible stories in Romania, building a church and teaching English in Bulgaria.
Asia
What was traditional (Malaysian, Thai, Burmese) food like?
What were bathrooms like in Asia?
What was it like working with the refugees in Malaysia?
Ask me about my teammate having to stop a whole train to go to the hospital on the way to Thailand.
Ask me about off days/adventure days in each country and what they looked like.
How were team changes for you?
How did Cambodia get added to your route?
What is the Awakening?
How were the holidays overseas/Thailand?
What fun things did you do in Asia?
Ask me about a ministry that intrigues you!
*We worked in a homeless shelter, did street evangelism, and worked with refugees in Malaysia, taught English in Thailand and Myanmar.
Africa
In what ways did Africa surprise you?
What were the people like?
Ask me what it was like to live at an orphanage with 30 children!
What were squatter camps (townships) like in Johannesburg?
How was evangelizing there?
What fun things did you do in South Africa?
What did the Lord teach you this month?
Ask me about my “dream” in South Africa!
What were travel days like in Africa?
What crazy things happened in Zimbabwe?
How was Victoria Falls?
Ask me about the stars in the Southern Hemisphere!
How did Lesotho, South Africa, and Zimbabwe differ?
What people were the hardest for you to say goodbye to from each month in Africa?
What fun things did you do in Africa?
Ask me about a ministry that intrigues you!
*We worked and lived at an orphanage in Lesotho. We did lots of evangelism and made baby packages in South Africa. We evangelized, encouraged people from the church and helped at church in Zimbabwe.
Caribbean
How was your layover in New York?
How was your travel from Port-Au-Prince to your ministry site?
How did you deal with your spiritual warfare throughout the month and what did it look like?
How was it working with Mission of Hope?
What were the mobile clinics like and what did you do?
How was month 11 in the Dominican Republic different?
What was it like to find your own ministry?
Was this month harder or easier than you expected?
Ask me about my time with my Aunt Joanne in San Juan!
What are some intense things that happened to your squad mates while in the DR?
What fun things did you do in the Caribbean?
Ask me about a ministry that intrigues you!
*We worked with Mission of Hope doing evangelism, painting houses, helping with mobile clinics, and discipled short term teams in Haiti. The Dominican Republic was a lot of processing the last year, prayer walks, visiting my Aunt and seeing ALL the ministry she does, but really it was mostly enjoying the last couple of days with my squad.
I cannot wait to get home and tell you all about my trip. Please ask me questions! All the questions! The more specific the better! Please don’t mind if I ask you questions back, I want to know your past year as well.
