Wrapping Up

T-minus approximately 150 hours until I'm back to the Bay State.  In the next 6 days I'll be pretty busy, but will definitely be appreciating my surroundings one last time.  I have a final tomorrow morning, an 8 page paper to finish up and edit tomorrow afternoon along with another 2-3 page paper.  Thursday is free, and will definitely involve a lot of beach, maybe some packing.  Friday we check into the airport early, and have the rest of the morning free before our flight around 1.  We'll get into the Quito that night, and i imagine it will be quite the project checking the 28 of us into a hotel.  Saturday I'll be meeting with my first host family for lunch before going back to the city to spend a final night with the whole GAIAS group.  Sunday is a day of shopping.  I hate to ruin the surprise, but your Christmas gift is coming from Ecuador.  Monday morning I have to be at the airport around 7:30 seeing that my flight leaves around 10:30 am. I'll stop first in Miami with a little bit of a layover before finally getting into Logan Airport around 8:35 pm.  

Those are the last few Ecuadorian days for Joe.  I'll make sure to get at least one more final blog in before i get back home.  Maybe during my layover if i'm in a contemplative mood.  

Wow, it's going to be weird going back to real life.