Estoy en casa!

I am now home home home. It has been a long and wonderful journey: January 2008 to October 2010 in Latin America. My time in Guatemala has started me down the path toward evolving into who I want to be. I have become very independent from living alone in a foreign country, and I have developed a more broad and respectful world view. I'm fluent in Spanish and have learned more than I ever wanted to know about ecotourism and trash management. And I think I know where I am headed next: I'm looking into Water Resources/Hydrology masters programs. After seeing how little access the rest of the world (and parts of our country, too) have to clean drinking water, and knowing how much worse it is going to get, I want to work toward solutions to this problem.

I will probably still make a few more posts to finish up telling about my travels (the last being trekking in Peru with my sister), to update about the progress of the bottle classroom that I left behind in Sija, and to tell funny tales of my reverse culture shock. So stay tuned!