Its an early Thursday morning, as everyone in the house bustles around, cleaning up the place we called home for 8 days straight. The community that so willingly housed and cared for us was soon to be disappearing in our rear-view mirror, and we couldn’t thank them enough. So on our last morning in Alabama, we gave a tearful goodbye to all 50 Mother Mary and Baby Jesus portraits (and statues) that covered the walls of Resurrection Missionary, we were ready to part ways.
Prior to leaving, we established a lottery system to determine who would be riding in each car (in order to shake things up), for our 6 hour car ride. There are 3 cars on this journey, with Immersion Leaders Linda, Erika, and Lindie as the certified drivers. After having an opportunity to reconvene, it became clear that every car ride had their own unique 6 hour experience…
These are their stories:
Lindie’s Car:
One of our members (and the only male on the entire trip), Connor Burke, was the certified DJ. The summary of this trip involved an entire Ice Ice Baby Rap, a podcast that lasted for roughly 15 minutes before members of the car became abruptly “unengaged”, and the unreliable DJ (Connor) fell asleep with phone in hand, placing the entire car in IPod-shuffle purgatory.
Linda’s Car:
In this car, dancing and massive amounts of snacking ensued for the majority of the trip. However, similar to the incident that occurred in Lindie’s car, an incedent occurred in which all members of the car (aside from Linda) had fallen asleep. Not only were members of this car breaking the golden rule of “thou shalt not leave the driver hangin’ by falling asleep”, Linda was left to listen to the same Beyonce CD 2.5 times until the first sign of conscious life became present from the rest of the car.
Erika’s Car:
This car has been reported to be relatively tame, with engaging and enriching conversation with fruitful thought and consideration. We can all learn a little something from Erika’s car.
6 hours and several interesting gas stations later, we find ourselves in Tennessee. Stay tuned for more fun and learning from the South!