Home

Home is a difficult word. It is a word that creates some confusion. For example, Sunday afternoon I left home to head home.. The two locations are almost a thousand miles apart, but are labeled similarly because, home is many places. My home is the house I am in right now, in North Carolina. It is the place Ben and I share with our pup.. but it is also in Missouri- with our families. Very confusing :) But as I said, Sunday I headed home (from home). I had a short trip, just went to drop off my pup (ok, she's 4 years old might be time to start calling her a dog..I like pup). But I was able to spend some time with my family which was great. And after a crazy busy semester, relaxing. Which may sound unbelievable, in reality I was running around very busy for the 3 1/2 days I was there. But seeing family helped me to de-stress and keeping busy spending time with them was just what I needed. Now here I am back in NC, back to the reality that I'm leaving the country in 3 days. I'll be spending 3 weeks in Costa Rica. It still seems unreal, but the closer Friday comes, the more nervous I get. I think about how often I lose the words I want to use when talking in English, now I'm supposed to find the words in Spanish? Most people know I'm quiet, but in Costa Rica they'll probably assume I'm mute. :) I'm excited for all I will be doing, I'm going to be so busy while I'm there. Every day is planned, we'll be seeing so much while we're there. And learning so much. Each day I will have 4 hours of Spanish classes. So hopefully this will give me the confidence to communicate in Spanish. I will be posting as often as I can on here, hopefully I'll be able to easily upload pictures as well.