Adios

¡Hola Amigos!
On Monday, we all packed up and headed to the retreat center to begin our re-entry retreat. The first day we discussed our hopes and fears and what we thought would be the biggest challenges trying to reintegrate ourselves back into American culture. On Tuesday, we all went to this awesome beach with a huge water slide. This was our last day together as a group. We pulled an all-nighter on Tuesday since the first group of students left for the airport at 4:30am. It was so hard to say goodbye to everyone. Due to a flight problem, I had to say an extra day at the retreat center. That Wednesday was so depressing. Four other students stayed behind with me and we all just moped around all day. That night we pulled ourselves together and went out for drinks and dessert.

I arrived back in the States on Thursday, and it has been so hard to adjust back to “normal” life. I’m just in this daze trying to make sense of everything I experienced in the past four months.

So I guess this brings my story to an end. Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers while I’ve been away. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading about my adventures in El Salvador and if there’s time, I would love to sit down with each one of you and show you all my pictures and tell you all the crazy stories that I didn’t have the space to write about. ¡Adios amigos!

Paz,
Stephanie