*I know I have been bad about posting pictures and blogs lately, but I'm working on getting Swaziland pictures up on facebook soon and I will post a blog about my time in Swaziland soon enough. In other news, I'm at debrief in Bangkok and will be heading to Chang Mai in northern Thailand in a few days for MAN-istry month!
I’m currently on an airplane headed towards Bangkok after an epic 3 months in Southern Africa, and I can’t help but think about how this is my life right now.
-Leaving the African Continent isn’t that big of a deal anymore.
-Flying to Asia isn’t weird to us at all.
-Spending 3 days in a random country (South Africa) after a month in Swaziland is normal.
-Living in the mountains of Swaziland for a month and not thinking anything we did was crazy enough to write a blog about.
-Sitting on the side of the road for 2 hours while your bus was broken doesn’t even faze me anymore.
-Being with the same 50 people every month isn’t getting on my nerves, but rather I love all of them.
-Not having a clue about what I want to do when I get home isn’t fazing me in the slightest.
-Wearing short shorts through 3 international airports is just life (ok, not gonna lie. This one is great fun.)
As you can see, my life is anything but normal right now, and I can’t get enough of it. As we took off from Johannesburg towards Qatar, I felt like I was hopping on a plane to Phoenix for the weekend or something. I wasn’t strange that I had just spent 3 of the best months of my life on this continent and that there are tons of people there I miss terribly, there are places I went that are unlike any other, and there are things I did/saw I will probably never do/see again. And just like that, it’s gone.
Sure, all the fun stuff is difficult to say goodbye to, but when you’re on your way to places like Bangkok, it’s easy to get excited about what’s ahead.
The challenge for me is knowing that in less than 100 days, I will be getting off an airplane at LAX and saying goodbye to some of my best friends ever. That means no more long bus ride talks, no more sharing everything with them, and no more ridiculous adventures with them. In less than 100 days, I won’t be a few hours from all these people and I won’t see them at least once a month. No, they will be spread out all across America (and America is fairly big. Just saying). I want to spend as much time with these people and press into the Lord with them as much as possible.
There was Internet at our hostel last weekend, but I only used it for logistics stuff. I didn’t use it to see status updates on Facebook, see how the Lakers are doing, catch up on spring football over at USC, or email family and friends to tell them I’m alive and kicking after 2 months of poor internet. No, I wanted to spend time with the family that is around me. I went to the mall, planned dance parties, and sat around the pool just so I could be around my friends.
I love these people, and I can’t get enough of them. I’m going to be a train wreck when I get home. I can’t thank God enough for each and every member of W squad. This truly has become my family these last 8 months, and it is probably going to kill me when we all get home and have to say goodbye (unless they all move to California…Audible?).
This is my life as I know it, and I can’t get enough of it.
