This will be my last report home for the year. As of today I have 19 days left of my exchange. Sorry that the emails have become a bit more sporradic over the past two months. Things have gotten incredibly busy. The family that I live with now is treating me really well and I love staying at their house. We travel all the time to Manila because my three host siblings go to school there and we've been busy getting ready for the new school year. We've all been on vacation since march and school will start again this June. If I'm not in Manila or travelling then I'm at our giant house situated near the irreputedly most beautiful volcano in the country. Since the other rotex started going home on the 16th of May there have been lots of trips planned for us to go to eachother's cities to get in some last minute visits. Currently there are only 3 of the original 5 left and the next will leave June 1st. My life here is so set now that I can't imagine going back to Canada. Everything will be completely different. I won't eat with the same cutlery, shower the same way, cross the street the same way, everything. Over the past 10 months I've learned to be completely different in everything I do, from my actions to my thinking. I know that when I chose to come to the Philippines I was hoping for an experience that would be completely different from anything I had ever seen before. Nothing could have been truer. My world has been turned upside down and rebuilt from the ground up and I'm a better person for it. I'm excited to come home but at the same time worried to leave my life. I feel like I'm about to start an exchange all over again. Thank you all for allowing me the chance to have this experince. I'll be able to properly thank you all back home but nothing truly can ever express how great this exchange was.
Diyos mabalos po sa gabos at ingat po kamo pirmi.
Thank you for everything and take care all of you,
Sacha
