One Month Left...

So this past week marks a mile stone ... I have one month left .. Less now that I am writing this.  I have such a mix of emotions about this... I am so excited to go home.  I even have another adventure planned three days after I land! My family and friends, I cannot wait to celebrate a holiday with them instead of through Skype.  I missed my Grandpas 96th birthday party and those do not come around every year.  I need to get back to a place where I feel like I have some aspect of control and I am not an invader...  Though leaving is absolutely the last thing I want to do.  How can I leave a place that is full of new experiences, new insights?  How can I leave behind the people that have made my experience so wonderful? I had to say good bye to one of them today... Not good, and I feel like this is just the beginning.  I was once told "All good things come to an end but it is easier to let the things go if you have fully experienced it with all your heart and soul".  I am going to say yes, yes I have experienced this with my heart and soul.  Maybe everything did not go according to plan, there was a time I called home in tears, but I pushed through and did some retail shopping the next day.  I excelled, I struggled, I made great friends.  Leaving them is going to be hard as hell but I can look back with no regrets.  Brazil gave me an opportunity and I rode it like a champ.  So to my last month.... Interviews, the desert, the Amazon, the friends, the goodbyes.... Here I go.