have you ever had this huge plan or grand adventure planned & within seconds, you have to wrap your head around it not being there?? yea me neither & so i honestly don’t know how to even begin processing what is going on right now.
for those who haven’t heard, adventures in mission has decided to pull all of their world race, gap year, & semesters participants off of the field. so by wednesday night, almost all of us will be back stateside.
we went from one day being cleared to continue & finish our route to waking up the next to emails, texts & calls saying we will be stateside in 72 hours. the shock set in & the numbness quickly followed. friends i still had 40 days to make memories with will now be out of my life in 72 hours. countries i had made connections & plans to go serve in are no longer accessible & hosts had to be emailed that we wouldn’t be able to come. plans down the drain, expectations not met, hopes crushed.
from our perspective here, the country is in shambles & pandemonium has spread across the borders. adapting back to this culture wasn’t going to be easy, but now i’m even more nervous & scared about coming back home.
so what’s next? i wish i could answer that! at this point all i know is i begin the journey home early wednesday morning (thailand time) & will hopefully make it to california by wednesday evening. we will have a couple days of debrief & then i’m off on who knows what.
pray for safe travels. pray for peace & comfort as we begin transitioning back into the states as shock & confusion are still present in our minds. pray for us, please. cause we all need it right now.
i’ll keep you updated on my new month 11 stateside.
madeleine
