Here's a light-hearted, but serious, way for experienced travelers to reflect upon their journeys while also giving new travelers something to think about!

 

 These are all something someone has done or experienced on a SURGE SINGLES trip.  How many have you experienced? 

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1.  Get a passport.

2.  Get a visa.

3.  Visit a foreign country.

4.  Get an immunization shot.

5.  Take malaria medicine.

6.  Change money at your bank.

7.  Download an offline translator app.

8.  Learn a new language. 

9.  'Unlock' your cell phone

10.  Travel to a new continent.

11.  Swap out sim cards in your cell phone.

12.  Get your luggage wrapped in plastic.

13.  Left something on the plane.

14.  Missed a flight.

15.  Travel with only a carry-on bag.

16.  Have flight rescheduled due to weather.

17.  Have something confiscated by customs.

18.  Had items stolen from your luggage.

19.  Use a ‘fanny pack’.

20.  Spent the night at the airport.

21.  Airline lost your luggage.

22.  Found out afterwards you could of had a cheaper flight.

23.  Sleep 4 or more in a hotel room.

24.  Couldn't figure out how to use the shower.

25.  Sleep on the floor of a room.

26.  Stay in a Hostel.

27.  Stay with a host family you've never met.

28.  Take a motorbike taxi.

29.  Ride in a ‘buggie’.

30.  Live without air conditioning for a day or more.

31.  Use a taxi w/o speaking the language and get where you intended.

32.  Ride in a plane, train, and a car in a 24-hour period. 

33.  Drove a car in a foreign country during rush hour.

34.  Take a Tour.

35.  Attend a professional sporting event in another country.

36.  Attend a church conference in a foreign land.

37.  Get robbed/mugged.

38.  Lose your wallet or purse.

39.  Boat or canoe on a river.

40.  Visit a ‘Wonder of the World’.

41.  Saw your cell battery go to 0%.

42.  Go without Wifi / Internet for 2 or more days.  

43.  Buy an international calling plan.

44.  Made a phone call home while in a foreign country.

45.  Lost your cell phone.

46.  Use a translator App.

47.  Use DuoLingo.

48.  Communicate by phone app (Whatsapp, Viber, etc…) with international people before you arrive.

49.  Used the wrong bathroom by mistake.

50.  Think you met someone from Atlanta…..Honduras, but it was just Atlanta, Georgia.

51.  Bought souvenirs.

52.  Negotiate a lower price from a vendor while not knowing the language.

53.  Overpay to a souvenir vendor.

54.  Get cheated by a money-changer or vendor.

55.  Get fraudulent charges on your credit card after using it overseas.

56.  Get interviewed by a group of school children.

57.  Got sick.

58.  Survived a hail storm.

59.  Got lost.

60.  Suffer from jet lag. 

61.  Drank water from the faucet….and didn't get sick.

62.  Ate something before you knew what it was.

63.  Suffer from food poisoning.

64.  Ate at McDonalds or Subway.

65.  Got coffee at Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts.

66.  Slept in past noon.

67.  Swam in a ‘new’ sea or ocean.

68.  Ate Chinese food in a foreign country (when not traveling in China).

69.  Inappropriately hug or kiss someone on the cheek.

70.  ‘Go Live’ on Facebook from a famous foreign location.

71.  Post your trip pics on the internet.

72.  Spend 10 minutes thinking of a caption for your photo or picture album.

73.  Speak in front of a foreign church.

74.  Speak at a church conference.

75.  Sing a familiar song in a foreign language.

76.  Learn a foreign dance.

77.  Teach a dance from your home country to your new foreign friends.

78.  Take a pic with the whole church.

79.  Go on a ‘date’ in a foreign land.

80.  Sit in on a bible study in a foreign language.

81.  Share your faith in the streets of a foreign city.

82.  Have a person you invite come to Sunday service and study the bible.

83.  Lose weight from walking everywhere.

84.  Gain weight from eating all the new foods.

85.  Shed a tear when you leave for the airport.

86.  Add all your new friends on Facebook.

87.  Click ‘like’ on all their photos.

88.  Steal your new friend's photos for your own.

89.  Feel depressed when you finally return home. 

90.  Ask about next year's SURGE trip.