Algunas piensamientos...

Until the people who have cameras upload their fotos, I want to hold out on the big blog post, explaining about the week-long trip we just had.  Here are just some quick thoughts:

1)   Today I found a hotel for my parents to stay in during their visit to Xela. I also made a surprise phone call home (it surprised me too) and talked to my mom and dad for the first time since being here. It was really nice to talk to them, although it was not for long. These two things reminded me that I have a really great family.

2)   I talked to three dear friends today. One only through email and two through Skype. This reminded me that I am wealthy in good friends. I have many good friends here on the trip with me, but it’s nice to remember how good my friends are back home too.

3)   Being “home” after traveling last week is good.  I love traveling because it reminds me of how great home feels.  This can be said of leaving Colorado to go to school in Minnesota, of leaving school in Minnesota to go to school in Xela, and also of leaving my house on Diagonal 12 to visit four other beautiful places.  I always return with a greater affection for the place I left.  Home is a really beautiful thing, and I am lucky to have multiple homes.

Soooooo, that was a cheesy list of thoughts. I had a lot of much-needed time to think today.

I will have that next post up soon, hopefully complete with pictures, none of which I took.  I already wrote the post and it is waiting in a Word document to be copied and pasted.  I have gotten in the habit of writing emails, blog posts, everything in Word documents from my house to save money and internet use.