After celebrating Christmas with my friends at GAIAS and some of the other local students, it took four airplanes and two days to get from the Galapagos to North Carolina. It was sad leaving my host family and the island, but I knew I would have been miserable if I'd been away from home for Christmas. I got back on December 18, just in time to help Mom wrap up her Christmas activities with her students and re-acclimate myself to life in the US. I'll miss the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador but there's no place like home. It was easier than I'd expected to return to my normal life, maybe too easy.
Christmas was beautiful and made even more special because I was seeing people I hadn't seen for over four months. Unfortunately, I'm now sick, apparently thanks to Dad. :)
I have another week and a half before classes start and I think it'll be more of a challenge to return to UNC study methods than it was readjusting to life at home. It took me until after Christmas to remember that I needed books for my classes. Oops.
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