I don't remember when the brochure arrived in my parents' mail.
It might have even been waiting for me when I got back from Uganda. But at some point in April or May, 2018, there it was: an invitation to take part in a gap year/internship program called Servant Teams.
I knew almost as soon as I saw it that I would probably like to do it.
For one thing, it just sounded like me ... and for another thing, the program included five months in East Africa ... a place I was dying to get back to.
I also saw the Servant Teams program as an opportunity to escape from the stuckness I felt in Dallas. And it was a chance to prove that I was able to handle normal life again ... or at least to find out if I was.
The reason I was even on the mailing list for Lahash (the parent organization of Servant Teams) was because I had donated to a good friend's birthday fundraiser benefitting Lahash - which, like New Hope Uganda, was founded by a JBU alum.
So, I sat on the brochure for a month or two - as the June 30th application deadline crept closer.
I didn't create the document to answer the application questions until the 19th. And then, somewhere along the way, I lost interest. It wasn't until my parents and I were listening to an audiobook by a gal who had suffered some major ups and downs in her life, as we were driving to ND to see Nathan again on June 30th, that I was "inspired" to complete the application.
We literally spent half an hour at a McDonalds along the road so that I could get the application emailed in ahead of the deadline. {I'm not sure why I didn't just hotspot my laptop from my phone - I think I hadn't figured out how to do that, LOL. *I just found a July 3, 2018 Facebook post stating that's when I learned to hotspot! Oh my.}
That chance I took is the main thing that I remember from June 2018. Like in May, I didn't post much on Facebook - Though I did attend the Republican State Convention as a guest of my parents, who were delegates. But almost half of the posts from that month are related to this application. I put all my eggs in the one basket, even though you're not supposed to do that!
One of my few posts on Facebook was sharing this song - so if I didn't learn about it in this month, I at least listened to it a lot then ... including while working on my Servant Teams application :)
