Traveling to Summer Staff Training....it was not boring!

Well, I left for training on Sunday. I woke up at 3:10am in order to meet Rebecca Henderson at the airport to fly out together to staff training in Cleveland, GA (outside of Atlanta). She is a fellow Unionite, however we didn't know each other until the WC interview weekend in January! We both arrived at the airport at 4:30 because our plane was scheduled to leave at 6:05. So we got there and told our goodbyes to our parental units. We then went through the ever so lovely process of preparing to board. Once we got boarded, we realized that the plane was full, so therefore we could not move to sit next to each other. Bummer. But I did sit by a really sweet family from Memphis. Once we landed at the airport, we went and found a WC Staff member to give us our next directions.

Oh...this was taken about 4:30 am...little did we know about our adventures to come!

Once we landed in ATL, we navigated the airport subway and eventually found him! He told us to get onto the Marta, a public transportation train. Well this little train ride turned out to be about an hour long.

We got on at the very bottom of the line and had to ride to the last stop at the top!

What fun, right?!?! It was really fun to people watch while we were sitting there. I am sure we looked ridiculous...two little white girls hauling around 2 huge suitcases a piece. I am sure people were watching us and getting a kick out of us as well! Then something cool and memorable happened...we met Yoseph. He is from Ethiopia and has been in the States for close to 6 years now. Yoseph struck up a conversation with us by asking us if we could tell him what certain words mean. It turned out he was preparing for an interview. We helped as much as we could and then just small talked with him. He was so nice and so smart. He taught me and Rebecca some nifty math tricks. (I still have them written down in my notebook! They are so cool!) Well, before Yoseph's stop, I asked him if we could pray with him before he got off. Rebeca and I had the opportunity to pray with him, and he seemed really appreciative that we took the time (like 30min.) to talk to him despite a language barrier, as well as the fact that we prayed with him.
Well after the hour train ride, we met Alex (another WC staff member) at the parking lot of the stop we got off at from the Marta. He kindly loaded our luggage into the expedition and took us to the WC warehouse.  He said on the way that he had saved the expedition with the sun roof for us, he then said something to the degree of "when we get to the warehouse, it's all yours".....I thought he was just being silly....he wasn't. When we got to the warehouse, he handed us some directions to Truett McConnell College (where training has been held) and told me and Rebecca to have fun! Neither Rebecca nor myself wanted to drive a HUGE NEW expedition...but thankfully R stepped up and offered to drive! She did great while I navigated (hahaha...me navigating? What has the world come to?) So we may have taken one or two wrong turns, but we got there! It took about and hour and 15 minutes...which is about how long it took everyone else. Once we got there, we checked in and met our teams! It was much more complicated trip to take it to ole Truett McConnell than I originally thought..but it was definitely an adventure! More "catch up" blogposts to come!