If you’re like my mom, you’ve found yourself slightly confused with the terms I’ve been throwing out. So in an effort to keep my blog both and awesome and intelligible, I will let you in on all the terminology.
Training camp – that crazy week where we camp, worship, and eat strange food with 50 other new people. See other blog post for more details.
Launch – the three days before we head out to our first country where we worship some more, learn how to not be stupid overseas, find out we did in fact pack too much.
Parents event – where you can invite one or both of your parents to launch so they can meet Adventures staff and sit in the first session with all the racers.
WR – short for the World Race.
AIM – short for Adventures in Missions (the organization that runs the World Race).
Racer – all us fabulous people that are on the World Race right now.
Squad – everyone that is going on the same route. They are running five routes right now. All the squads are lettered off so you can tell us apart. B squad!!! (It’s the best squad, obviously)
Team – everyone on the squad gets divided up into groups of six to eight to make up our teams. They’ll be our family, our friend, our coworkers, our shoulder to cry on for the next eleven months. I’m on Team Broken Chains with Colleen, Lyndsay, Gloriel, Stephie, Danielle, and Katie.
Team Leader – a fellow racer who was chosen at training camp to lead the team. Redundant, I know.
Squad Leader – two people who have already done the race and are going amongst the different teams to help and guide our squad (especially the team leaders) as we find our way on this new and strange journey called the World Race. Our awesome squad leaders are Andrew and Alys.
Debrief – when we all come together and take off all our underwear.
Just kidding. Every couple months we’ll come together as a squad to process our experiences. It’s important to unpack everything God has brought us through to get the most out of what He is teaching us.
Squad Coaches – our coaches are Deon and Rynette, an amazing couple from South Africa who will join us on the field for a few of the debriefs. They will mentor us, and love on us, and slap us upside the head if we need it. They’re sort of like the squad parents.
I think that should be all you need to know to understand us crazy racers when we blog.
