Last día de trabajo.

Hello all..
Thank you for all the comments! Ann´s mom...Ann is doing wonderful..Her and I have bonded amazingly well and I keep wondering what i´m going to do without her! Her and I have decided to stay in touch alot, and hopefully save up and fly and see each other soon. We also want to do more of these Habitat trips in the future together, so unfortunatley you won´t hear the last from me. For those of you who are wondering, Todd is a friend i´ve made here... He´s an English teacher in Philly and him and Ann and I hang out all the time. Yesterday was an amazing day. We got a new Mason who started delegating tasks quickly and tried to learn our names with his broken Spanglish. We worked non stop all day which was amazing, I cut holes in U-blocks which are cement blocks, bent C´s with rebars, made huge rebars with those c´s and help cut rebars so we can make c´s. It hit me yesterday that we were going to be leaving our families but I thought the crying should start today, which it did. Yesterday we also made scrapbooks which will be given to the familes tonight at our goodbye ceremony. My page was made with pictures Ale took from our cameras but we also had other special pages that were focused around things we´ll remember about her. Today: So i´m sad to report that i´ve finished working on the house. I can´t believe how far we got. We started from digging trenches and just plain flat land to actually a house that is half way up. It is amazing how much our team worked with the mason and family to help them build this. I loved how motivated and how positive my group always was and I think that our close knit group will stay friends for a long long time. Aside from the fact that Ann and I want to go on other Habitat trips to help people´s lives, our group that worked on Ale´s house also want to go somewhere else soon too so I´ll forsure have more exursions to work on. Today was a hard day because it was our last day to work. Ale asked her mom to stay home because she wanted to spend time with us. Her mom and grandma were home and made us lunch which consisted of polenta and chicken, which looked like the one that was live the day before. Ha ha. They made tortillas and the food was great. After the meal, Ale gave us all wicker baskets which apparently her grandfather who is currently in prison wove us. He had heard that we were there helping and had made these baskets for us which are beautiful. I can´t wait to show everyone. It was so thoughtful everyone started getting teary-eyed and Ale even had to leave the area. As we were travelling home for the last time, I thought about how much more simple I´m going to live my life. About all the luxeries I have at home and how it is so much more important to spend time with your family. Everything here focuses around one´s family and not how much money you have on the table. I got super sad because Ale and her mother and grandma were eating lunch with us too and it made me homesick and it reminded me of my mom and grandma and how much I take advantage of them and all the luxeries they have provided me. Even though Ale is only 8, she has made me learn alot about how to live my life and I will cherish every moment of it. It also hurts me to see how much potential Ale has and how she may not be able to fulfill all her hopes and dreams. She wants to me not only a teacher but a doctor and a lawyer and I hope and pray she is able to fulfill that. Most people here don´t complete all of school and it is only mandatory up till grade 6. I hope to God that something miraculous happens so that is able to live her dreams and support her family. I have learnt so much from everyone here but I´m going to take back things that my friends here have learnt and gained from their experience. This has made me so much more humble but relaxed, more generous but I have learnt not to complain and never to fret or be negative. Just to have fun and seize the day. Take what you get, grasp it, hold on to it and RUN. Everyone here that I hang out with are all older, Ann is 22 but everyone else is in their late 20´s early 30´s. They all have jobs and after dinner when we´re all hanging, and everyone is talking about life, I just sit and listen and take all the intellectual information I can get and try and make it seep in my brain. From the inspirational quotes, to the books they read, to their papers, thesis´s and dissertations that they write, to where the went to school and what masters they have, to what they do on their spare time, I´m going to try and be just like them, in my own individual way. I thank God for blessing me to come here, it has changed my life for the better, and I can´t wait to embark on the rest of my journey. I will be home on Saturday night, and I think that we´re going to scale a volcano on Friday. I don´t know if i´ll get internet agian but thats okay, just pass your messages onto my mom and when I call her she can tell me.
Thank you to everyone for helping me reach to this point, for helping me change my life and realize, really realize how much we have and how I need to be simple in my life and how I need to be positive and thankful for everything.
Thank you again and again and again.
Lots of love, always and forever.
Carpe Diem 786.