My first blog I ever wrote I talked about how everyone would ask a high schooler “what are you going to do after you graduate?”. Well now I am here to talk about a question that people have already started to ask. 

“How was your trip?”

I am here to let you in on a secret. No world racer wants to be asked that question. It is an impossible question to answer when you just walked out of a wild nine months. Imagine yourself trying to briefly summarize the past nine months of your life. 

So to help ya’ll and myself out I am going to list some intentional questions for you to ask me. Some are fun, serious, ministry related, and/or questions just for you to better understand what these past nine months of my life have consisted of. Please know that I want to tell you about the life I just lived, this will just be a better way for me to describe and let you in on this part of my life. 

TRAINING CAMP: (August-October) 

• What was it like sleeping in a tent? 
• What did you learn in the sessions? 
• What did you do during your free time? 
• Are your relationships the same from the beginning to the end? 
• What challenges did you face during training camp? 
• Were you ready to leave? 
• How did you see your relationship with the lord already start deepening? 
• In what was did you see yourself grow? 

GUATEMALA: (October-January)

• What was ministry like? 
• How was this time in Guatemala different from the first time you went? 
• What was your mode of transportation? 
• What did you do on activation days? 
• How did spend your off days? 
• What was it like on base? 
• What is a tienda? 
• What was your favorite city to visit?(Chimaltenango, Antigua, Parramos) 

• In what ways did you see the lord move through you and your team?
• What was it like separating from the squad for two weeks? 
• How did you and your squad celebrate (halloween, thanksgiving, Christmas, new years)? 
• What was it like being away from your family during the holidays? 
• How did you grow/ learn about surrender and walking in holiness? 

Other things you can ask about: 

• Hiking Acatenango
• Guatemala Debrief
• Tattoos
• Food(plantain soup)
• Baptism 
• Team times
• Culture 
• Street animals
• Coffee

ROMANIA:(January-March) 

• What did your ministry consist of? 
• What was your housing like? 
• What did you learn, enjoy, or dislike about being apart of the youth team? 
• In what ways did you see the lord move during evangelism?

• What gave you the most joy while in Romania? 
• What made Romania the hardest country? 
• What did you learn about yourself, Romania, and the lord? 
• Were you separated from the squad again? 
• What is something new you did?

Other things you can ask about:

• Evangelism
• Adventure days 
• Culture
• Food

ESWATINI:(March-May)

• What was ministry like? 
• What is a care point? 
• What was your base like? 
• What are the similarities or differences of swazi compared to your first two countries? 
• How did you continue ministry on base? 

• What did you do in the bush of Africa? 
• What was hard about leaving? 
• What was the awakening? 
• How was it seeing your parents for a week? 
• What growth did you see within your team from the beginning until now? 
• What is swazi church like? 
• So Brooke do what do you think about the stars in Africa? 

Other things you can ask about:

• Cooking on base
• Running
• House visits
• Kids at ministry 
• St. Lucia/Visa renewal 

FUN/RANDOM QUESTIONS: 

• Worst travel experience?
• Did you ever poop your pants? 
• Covid? 
• What are the odds? 
• Biggest drop table regret? 
• Florida for two weeks? 
• I cried when? 
• I hated this food…
• I loved this food…
• Favorite sports or games played? 
• What squad mates you connected with the most? 
• Miracles you witnessed? 
• Words and phrases in other languages I can say? 
• Best and worst holiday? 
• Favorite place you lived?
• Latest night you had? 
• Coming back to the states and having strep and an ear infection? 
• How did you do laundry? 
• One way you grew that you never expected? 
• Any foods you came back liking? (Cheese?1?!) 
• How would you pack differently? 
• Hardest piece of feedback you received? 
• Favorite stars/sunsets/sunrises you saw? 
• Pets on base? 
• What was it like being Santa? 
• How was it doing school while on the race? 
• Favorite FaceTime calls? 

So for you to get more detail than “good” here are some specific questions you can ask or any you can think of! Remember I want to share what life on the field was like, so just ask! 

FIVE DAYS!!!