I feel like every day is a new adventure and I’m just kind of this sponge right now, soaking it all in and hoping that I will be able to bring some of the things I’m learning back home with me ... just everything, sights, sounds, smells, tastes. It’s all so different and it’s just making me so thankful, again and again, that I did have the courage to get up and leave campus to come here ... because I’m living with families and I’m doing instead of reading about it or listening to a lecture.