So Saturday morning, the TREK leaders and interns came banging on our doors at 5 in the morning, and were yelling, "GET UP! You have 7 minutes to be downstairs and ready for breakfast or there will be a penalty!" Little did we know that it was ready for the day! As we came out to the rainy dark morning, they told us that we were going to be doing the Amazing Race all day and we had 5 minutes to go back to our room to get a change of clothes for later, a backpack, a water bottle, and a toothbrush. So just imagine how hilarious we all looked with our disorganized faces and bodies. Yeah, we looked hott all day (I was sarcastic right there)!
The Amazing Race, for those of you who don't know what it is, is a game where teams compete with each other by completing different missions and after every mission, you receive a clue that leads you to the next mission.
We did about 20 some missions throughout the whole day. Close to half of our missions we had to walk/run through the misty day, and so we were pretty wet. And since I injured my knee this past summer, it was really painful at times, but it was worth it! We had an assigned driver, and we had to tell her where to go. I was appointed the navigator because "I have good direction," or at least that's what people around here say. So it was a fun day of figuring things out as a team.
In our team we discovered that everyone rose to the level and excelled in what they are good at. It was awesome to see how our team fit together and how everyone had different talents that we needed at certain points of the day.
These are a few of the things that we did throughout the day:
search for 6 bandannas (1 per team member) outside at 5 o'clock in the morning when it was dark and raining, eat rice, sardines, and drink a liter of Coke for breakfast, literally search for a needle in a haystack, do a firemen work-out outside in the wet and cold day, each person dip there face in a bowl of chocolate pudding and get a gummy worm with our mouth, and before wiping the pudding off our faces, dip our faces into a bowl of Rice Krispies cereal to get another gummy worm, as a team eat about 2 really dehydrated squids (tentacles and all), eat lunch at a Sikh temple (an Indian religion that branch off of Hinduism) and some of the food was good, but some of it made me gag (but it was a good experience to be in a different culture, religion, and see the hospitality that these people offered us), take the SkyTrain from Surrey to Vancouver, and our final mission, take the SkyTrain to the SeaBus, and then run a huge flight of stairs to find the 3 TREK interns screaming, "YEAH, team Japan! Go team Japan! You got it!"
Yup, our team won! After a long, wet, tiresome, crazy, gagging, adventurous day, we won! But even if we hadn't won, our team would've been just as happy with the day, because of the memories and how we worked together.
Some of you might be asking, "Why did they make you do this? What does this have to do with missions?" Well, it has everything to do with missions. You see, sometimes, while on the mission field, we will be thrown into situations that are unusual, uncomfortable, and sometimes, not rational. We will have to eat food that we are not used to eating, we will have to run to get to some places, we will have to work together as a team, and we have to figure how we will resolve problems or in the Amazing TREK was the clues or hints.
We learned a lot from this day. We learned a lot about each other and got a glimpse of how we will work as a team in Japan and the other team in Peru. God is going to do some amazing things through both of the teams, because both teams have discovered that as we join our talents and gifts together for the sole purpose of furthering His Kingdom, there is no stopping!
The Amazing Race, for those of you who don't know what it is, is a game where teams compete with each other by completing different missions and after every mission, you receive a clue that leads you to the next mission.
We did about 20 some missions throughout the whole day. Close to half of our missions we had to walk/run through the misty day, and so we were pretty wet. And since I injured my knee this past summer, it was really painful at times, but it was worth it! We had an assigned driver, and we had to tell her where to go. I was appointed the navigator because "I have good direction," or at least that's what people around here say. So it was a fun day of figuring things out as a team.
In our team we discovered that everyone rose to the level and excelled in what they are good at. It was awesome to see how our team fit together and how everyone had different talents that we needed at certain points of the day.
These are a few of the things that we did throughout the day:
search for 6 bandannas (1 per team member) outside at 5 o'clock in the morning when it was dark and raining, eat rice, sardines, and drink a liter of Coke for breakfast, literally search for a needle in a haystack, do a firemen work-out outside in the wet and cold day, each person dip there face in a bowl of chocolate pudding and get a gummy worm with our mouth, and before wiping the pudding off our faces, dip our faces into a bowl of Rice Krispies cereal to get another gummy worm, as a team eat about 2 really dehydrated squids (tentacles and all), eat lunch at a Sikh temple (an Indian religion that branch off of Hinduism) and some of the food was good, but some of it made me gag (but it was a good experience to be in a different culture, religion, and see the hospitality that these people offered us), take the SkyTrain from Surrey to Vancouver, and our final mission, take the SkyTrain to the SeaBus, and then run a huge flight of stairs to find the 3 TREK interns screaming, "YEAH, team Japan! Go team Japan! You got it!"
Yup, our team won! After a long, wet, tiresome, crazy, gagging, adventurous day, we won! But even if we hadn't won, our team would've been just as happy with the day, because of the memories and how we worked together.
Some of you might be asking, "Why did they make you do this? What does this have to do with missions?" Well, it has everything to do with missions. You see, sometimes, while on the mission field, we will be thrown into situations that are unusual, uncomfortable, and sometimes, not rational. We will have to eat food that we are not used to eating, we will have to run to get to some places, we will have to work together as a team, and we have to figure how we will resolve problems or in the Amazing TREK was the clues or hints.
We learned a lot from this day. We learned a lot about each other and got a glimpse of how we will work as a team in Japan and the other team in Peru. God is going to do some amazing things through both of the teams, because both teams have discovered that as we join our talents and gifts together for the sole purpose of furthering His Kingdom, there is no stopping!
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