Return Home

Well my fellow readers I am excited, nervous, and a little overwhelmed to be saying that I will be leaving Ecuador in two days! I will be returning home April 23, 2011. My experiences in Ecuador have changed and shaped me as an individual, and I am so glad I could share this with each and every one of you. I have spent eight months, an academic school year, in another country! I went outside my comfort zone, I learned about a different culture, I worked with some of the most famous people in Ecuador, but most of all I have grown and changed into a women that I never saw myself becoming. I am more aware of the blessings that I have, I am more aware of how many opportunities I have open to me, I am more aware of me, the person I am and the person I want to become. This study abroad experience helped me evolve and I feel like such a better person than I was a year ago. I feel wiser, I feel more mature, more independent, I feel good. I will continue to write when I return home because eventhough the trip is over not the experience, and I promised to share my experience with you. I will talk about adjusting back into your own culture after returning back from studying abroad, and how to get through reculture shock . I hope that all of you enjoyed, learned, and now want to study abroad from reading my blogs. Most of all I hope you are glad to had follwed me on my journey.