Well I have been nothing but a lazy bum for the last week and it has been great.  I loved seeing all of the family for fathers day...but it made me realize all the questions that peopel would ask that I didn't really have an answer for.  So I locked myself in and found a future.  I am going to work on my masters degree full time for this next year.  I am going to get a degree in English as a Second Language.  I just love the idea of teaching amid diversity and in smaller groups.  So now I just have to figure out my part time job.  But at least I have made it through the jet lag...slept a ton, and through the mixed up feelings and thoughts of waking up in Bolivia, and now I am back to my jolly self and ready to get on with this life.  Missouri is a great place to be...and summertime in the fresh air and GREEN farms are just Heaven sent (we're just ignoring the fact that I am melting in the heat, HAHA). 

We are in Santa Cruz now.  All tough goodbyes are over...except Melanie who we will see on the flight home.  We are now being spoiled at a very nice hotel for two days before we get on the 7 hour flight to Miami on Thursday morning.  See you all soon!

It feels wierd to be here at school for the final time to shut things down.  The room is empty.  Teachers are closing everything down.  Goodbyes are flying around non-stop.  I think I have a wall up...I'm not letting myself think of the fact that I will never see most of these people again.  I just stay in my day to day world and bite my lip a lot to keep from crying.  I figure next week I will have plenty of time to cry.  Heh. 

Parents and grandma are here.  Its good to have them here to show them what my life really is.  As much as I try to remember the little things ...they notice tons more that I am now immune to.  Its kinda nice to have the refresher so that I can appreciate all of the little things before I leave.  THey helped me shut down this morning and met tons of the staff. Bloqueos are happening downtown...so we can't go too far today.  Lots of walking and just getting to know the basics...we will have fun whatever we end up doing.

Keep praying for Bolivia as a whole...the government and the strikes are going nuts.   

I'm sick.  BLAH.  It has been going aroudn school for 2 weeks now.  I think all but 3-5 teachers have it or have had it.  I thought I was one of the lucky ones...until tuesday.  Yesterday I wore my coat all day.  Last night I got home at 4 and stayed in bed the rest of the night.  I realized how good my friends really are though.  They did a normal random stop by and when they saw that I was bad they sent me straight back to my bed and took control.  I had 3 doctors and a maid all at once.  You know you are loved when people clean up your house and take care of you when you feel bad.  I will miss these friends a lot. 

Today I probably should have stayed home, but it is only a half day, and enough things are already planned that I am really only teaching for one hour.  How about musical chairs!?  :)

Tomorrow is the last day...I can't believe it and yet I'm ready for it all at once.  So wierd.  SO mixed on all of my emotions.  Just ignoring it all though and getting by day by day...this flu thing has forced me to do that as well.  I had huge plans of organizing and packing all this week...but it turns out that sleeping has becoming more of a priority.  I know it will all come together...just 13 days left.  WOW.