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Hello all.  I have received messages from people and they mean so much to me. An email or text from a friend has cheered me up during hard times and made the day far easier. So I am going to do a short post to keep up my end of the bargain.    I am still quite tired at night but it is improving. While my responsibilities have increased - I now have lesson planning and Spanish homework—I have more energy most of the time.  Part of this is because I have figured out how to get from one point to the next when it comes to my class, my bus stop, and my Spanish class. I have also figured out how to take a taxi, a great fallback position. But I am still quite impressed with the weariness that comes.  Last night I read  up on the adaptation to altitude in those who move to altitude  as well as  adaptations in the populations that have lived at altitude long enough to adapt genetically.  It was really interesting but very!  comforting as my conclusion was that it would be crazy if
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In The Beginning……..(Sept 20) I am writing this sitting in my own little personal balcony with my room in the Hostel Pasado el Maple where I stayed last night and will stay tonight.  Tomorrow I will go to my host family -my home for the next year.   The hostel is quite nice.. and thankfully had coffee this morning.  The coffee wasn’t that great but the caffeine was awesome! (being amongst the 20 year olds I am hearing the word “awesome” a lot) Yesterday went surprisingly well… all flights on time.. all things good.  It was a long day but really not so bad.  I did arrive last night extremely tired due to the short night preceding as I finished up packing quite late.  I am not quite sure how this all began and I am shocked that I actually got on the plane and got here And more Beginnings ( Sept 24 -4 days later) It is now Sunday, four days later , and this is my first free day.  I have had some time in the evenings but due to lots of things (moving twice, altitu