Did I just really buy Spiced Chi Tea for $4.35? (That is wicked expensive.)
Did I just almost get sucked down the toilet? (I think I could flush a whole burger down the toilet.)
Did I not have to provide my own tp? (I need to stop collecting every napkin I see.)
Did soap, water, and paper towels just come out of a machine automatically, for free?
Is that free, pure drinkable water coming out of that fountain? (Trying to drink as much water as possible in the next 8 hours!)
Why isn’t everybody staring at me? (This may sound a little conceited, or maybe paranoid, but it is impossible to flee the stares, pictures, and proposals when traveling abroad.)
Wow, I can read what that sign says! (Do Not Enter…it is nice to be able to read the sign instead of just experiencing the consequences of why they have a sign there in the first place.:))
As I spent about a 10 hours layover in the Atlanta airport, I went through a mini culture shock. I am thankful I do not have to be in America for a little more time…I don’t think I could handle it yet!
But it was the most beautiful scene to watch my squad mates get embraced by their parents, lovingly “attacked�by their best friends, swept into the arms of a loved one, and even get proposed to (Congrats Amy!!).
Yes, it was just another airport and just a few hours, but boy, was it ever different than the things I have experienced the last 8 months!
As I sit to type this out people are coming back from going out and we are headed to check in for 3 more months.
Wow, time has surely flashed by. I knew it would. I remember sitting on our couch in the basement writing to God the night before I left for launch. I knew that I would be back on this couch before I knew it. But I would be different. It is a weird thing to think about how a year can drastically change you. But you know, it is a change into who I was made to be. And you don’t have to go on the WR to go through this change. God tells us we just have to be obedient. We have to love Him and others and He will do the transforming.
“They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.� John 17:16
“But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ� Philippians 3:20
First pic outside the airport in Honduras driving to our debrief.
