First Week Jitters

Hello all and welcome to my blog!  This is the place where I will be recounting and keeping you updated 

on all of my journeys in Paraguay this upcoming year.  As of right now all of the participants in the Radical Journey Program, including myself, are in Chicago for a month of orientation. Our present living quarters is a house, which we aptly named “Mennonite Real World” due to 16 Mennonites (let’s just assume I’m Mennonite) living in what feels like a reality show type of setting just without the cameras, that is located next to The First Church of the Brethren in downtown 

Chicago. 

Basically the program breaks down like this; there are four teams that are going to various locations around the world.  There is a team heading to Brazil, another to Sweden, a third to England, 

and finally my team that is going to Paraguay where we will be mostly working with local populations teaching English.  We will also have opportunities to become involved in the church and community (more details to come when I actually get there).

Celebrating our one week anniversary in orientation tomorrow, I have found it to be, at the least, very informational and experiential. 

 We generally have some sort of devotions in the morning as a group that focus on different spiritual disciplines such as prayer, hospitality, and solitude followed by late morning and afternoon exercises which, for the first week, were mainly learning how to navigate in a large city such as Chicago.  We still have 3 more weeks until we head out and I’m terribly excited to get there!

Please feel free to check back here often (at least once a week) and ask questions for more specific details that you would like to know!