2 months!

Today marks 2 months that I have been in Costa Rica! I left Grand Junction on August 31st and now it is October 31st! How crazy. It feels like less than two months but also more than two months simultaneously. I am so proud of myself for hanging in there. On August 31st, I cried the entire day. It was a long, lonely travel day and I had not really slept that much, and it was my first time being alone like that. I actually had a woman in the Dallas Fort Worth airport ask me if I was okay because I was crying so much. And to think, I have been doing this for two months and I am feeling so good! Of course, there are times where I feel a bit sad and times where I wish that I could be in two places at once, but right now I am feeling happy to be in Costa Rica doing this thing! I am looking forward to several more months of travel and seeing so many cool new places and experiencing new things.

Also, Happy Halloween! I have been doing lots of tutoring today and it has been fun seeing all of the costumes and hearing about the Halloween plans. My plans for the evening are to make myself some grilled cheeses for dinner, get a TV show or movie (NOTHING SCARY) set up, and then eat so much candy that I feel sick. I have added a picture of a message that I wrote for some of my math students when they entered the class and a picture of all the sweets that I have at my disposal tonight. 

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