Australia
I’m trying to wrap my head around the past year of my life. I started 2010 in Thailand finishing up my last few months of teaching there (which was probably one of the best life decisions ever). Then I moved home to travel around the country for the summer before settling downtown working with the Kivu Gap year. I spent 12 weeks living with the girls in the program before moving home to care for my sweet grandmother. I spent a month taking care of her each day before she went to be with the Lord (some of fondest memories of her in my whole life).
The holidays were suddenly upon us, as well as a KCO/Kivu reunion. I traveled around the south visiting the boyfriend’s family and just when I thought I was actually going to get serious about settling in and getting a job I get a call saying that I can join a team of individuals traveling to Australia. What? I’m sorry. What is going on? When did I become a vagrant? Ironically enough, I always wanted to be one. I always envied the guys at camp that lived from summer to summer filling their days with amazing adventures. Well guess what…wish granted. (However, I was hoping that maybe at 26 I could have a real job that actually included a paycheck every two weeks). There’s beauty in everything though. If I had all my ducks in a row like I planned, I wouldn’t be able to travel with this disaster relief team to help with all of the flooding that is currently happening in Queensland, Australia. I’ll be honest I’m excited about the opportunity. I’m excited to help. Yes, a little wary in some regards but mostly just thrilled to be part of this.
So here’s the plan. On Sunday I fly to Tulsa and then drive to Fayetteville to stay the night before driving to Dallas the next day. On Monday, we will fly to LA where we will board our plane to fly to Sydney. Once we arrive in Sydney we will rent three cars and drive the 12 hours up the coast to Brisbane. For nine days we will do whatever we can to help before driving back down to Sydney to fly home on the 5th. Then I’ll do the whole first part of the trip again before arriving back in Denver on the 6th. If you could be praying for all of the people on this trip as well as though affected by this disaster that would be wonderful.
