One of my favorite actors growing up and even today has been Jackie Chan. I always respected his sense of humor but also the fact that He always did his own stunts. It somehow made you like him more and his movies felt more authentic. The bloopers for Rush Hour are some of my favorite outtakes ever. You never have to wonder who is doing the actions and it is just super cool.
Today we went to an island with 25 teenagers. We took these semi small wooden boats across the ocean, they only held about 8 people each and we crammed 11 on all 3 of ours. We got to stand as we rocked back and forth on the waves it was incredible. Then at the island we swam and played and enjoyed fried duck. It was so good. And just had a blast with these kids. The whole day felt a little Tom Sawyer meets Swiss Family Robinson but it was incredible and then we rode home in the back of the pickup truck. It was a perfect epic race adventure. The kind of day they would make a great vlog, video blog. I’m not super talented with that though so I will just let your imaginations picture it. Even getting stung by what I think was a large jellyfish can’t ruin how awesome today was. (It did sting a lot)
Today made me realize though that I don’t want to live on autopilot and I don’t want to settle. I am so blessed to be living my adventure but it isn’t over in 3 months. I don’t plan on settling back into a routine. I don’t want a stunt double to get to do all the cool stuff. The book I am reading currently, “Love Does,” is amazing and has a neat interpretation of this idea. Bob the author bought a fancy original painting and it came with a copy. The idea being that you put the original in a safe place and hung the copy on the wall. Our existence is a one of a kind original copy. I know I have been guilty of hanging up my “copy” on the wall for the world to see and saying yup this is all I’ve got. I don’t want to do that anymore. We get to live incredible one of a kind life journeys and today was a day I am not going to forget for a long time. I am going to keep doing my own stunts and saying yes to God’s best in my life.
It has been amazing so far!!!
** hehe also in English class I think I drive my translator/teacher a little crazy but she is so sweet. I’m a little bit of English and a whole lot of crazy energy but I have loved it. Saying goodbye is going to be very hard again and I know it just means I have loved well but if you could keep me in your prayers we leave for debrief on the 29th. We leave for Africa around the 5th. Also i am still not fully funded and they want us to be before we leave for Africa. If you coyld pray over this for me that would be amazing. Thanks so much!!!!
So crazy to finally be on the last leg of this trip. And I can finally sing name name eh eh whaka whaka aaaa name name aaaaaa it’s time for Africa!
