Thursday, January 3, 2008

Regular Size Keys.

We still have the faintest outlines of sunburns, and scabs where our mosquito bites were. Most of our stuff is still in bags. And when someone brings me food at a restaurant, I still want to say "gracias," or "obrigada." But one very concrete thing makes our current location unmistakable:


It's a winter wonderland!

That's right, we are home. We arrived just in time for beautiful holidays with our families and the Iowa caucuses. It snowed a whole bunch on New Year's Eve, as if to remind us once again that we are not, in fact, on the beach in Brazil any longer. But we had an amazing, eye-opening, learning, hilarious, relaxing experience, and we are happy to be home. I told myself that I would make sure not to forget to reflect in some way (cheesy perhaps, but it's the educator in me), but I realized that we've been doing that every day, just by going through our things, giving gifts, telling people stories, organizing pictures, and trying not to forget our tango steps or espanol. We'll see how it is when we actually go back to work in a couple of days.

As for the blog, I suppose it'll be done for a while, or at least on extended rest (although always here, of course, for fun photo review!). We hope that everyone had wonderful holidays and that we can reconnect sometime soon. Until then, feliz ano nuevo!!