God seems to have me in the craziest situation. I took flight at 1:50 to the Detroit airport, which was just the beginning of my journey thus far. Once I landed in Detroit I went and grabbed myself some lunch and headed onwards jumping on my plane to Amsterdam. What a flight that was, ended up only being 7 hours… but still 7 hours. Due to mind boggeling time zones once I arrived in the Netherlands it was about 7:30 in the morning. Thankfully I was given 10 euro because I was starting to get rarther hungry. Don’t get me wrong plane food is alright, but I was still good from the McDonalds earlier once they were serving. Interaction.. that worried me. I was nervous to sound dumb ordering and not knowing what to order because the food did look good, just didn’t know what was in it! So my morning in Amsterdam consisted of a cold hotdog with ketchup and a coke. Really broadening my horizons huh? Amsterdam also brought on many emotions, excitement aswell as sadness. Realizing that my connections with people won’t be as current due to time constrictions (USA is 6 hours behind) and the very busy schedule I have ahead of myself. One more flight to finish this off; Amsterdam to Cape Town, South Africa. Most wretched of all was this flight, 12 hours. I must have listened to the oddest mix of Taylor Swift, the Chariot, NEEDTOBREATHE and Owl City about 46 times. Managed to watch 2 episodes of 30 rock, finished off with my bestfriend sleep. So here I sit, in a temporary room while they get mine done. I am still at the YWAM base but just not in my quarters yet. It is quite interesting though being in a room full of Korean people all snoring and chatting via webcam with people. I don’t stand out at all… Kinda bummed I landed at night, although a very cool couple met me at the airport to bring me here. It made the hour drive a lot funner. Even though it was quite daunting with all the new road changes and the cars and everyone seems to own a landrover. & really interesting that the police do not infact pull you over for speeding no matter how fast your going. They just use their radars and send you the bill later, also you do not get any points towards your liscence. I am surrounded by mountains and have been warned greatly about the monkeys, they just hang around here. So they notion of this being a quant pretty safe city seems to be fading. I have been told there is a very high drug and crime rate. YIPPEE. I love you guys and will miss you all but I’m starting to really believe God is going to do some wicked sweet stuff in and with me.
Greetings From South Africa.
Love Courtland.