Lessons learned
Now I’m back to endless hot water, brushing my teeth in tap, not feeling sticky with sunblock and bug spray all day, flushing toilets, smooth pavements, not drinking a spoonful of grease with every bite of food, not waking up to roosters at 3 in the morning, and of course family and friends, I can’t help but look back and realize how different my expectations going in were from how I’ve actually changed and what I have learned:
- I am very lucky to have all that I have and should not take anything for granted (as cliché as that sounds)
- After hours on end of debates over religion, we came to the conclusion that there was no point in arguing rationally over a phenomenon not based on logic.
- I legitimately missed home for the first time
- How to live without internet
- Honduran pool
- How much I miss soccer
- The huge difference between British English and American English
- That I become immensely more proud of being Chinese when among a very international group of people
- How to put ideas into actions without hesitation
- That I am subconsciously more politically correct than I seem
- Helping others and fixing things are quite fulfilling
- That we can leave the maintenance team with no work by the end of our month 
- Learning a Danish drinking song
- How dark I could actually get
- That heat rashes are worse than chicken pox and canker sores combined
- Meeting different types of people helped me figure out what type I am
This summer could not have been more fulfilling. Now back to my reality and hopefully this time round, I will put my lessons learned to use. Hope you had fun putting up with/reading/skimming the nonsense I was scribbling down!
