Tchau São Paulo, Oi Estados Unidos

While on the plane back home I felt many mixed emotions and realizations.
 I was sad to leave my Brasil family, the project I worked tirelessly on, and morning coffee with Leo.

 I was happy to know that I was going to be able to see my family and eat snow cones with my sister.

I began to think about our very first day in São Paulo, and how we struggled to do simple things we tend to take for granted. Then, I realized how much the three of us had grown not only as individuals, but as companions as well. We transformed from three young women who barely knew each other to three young women who became a small "gringa" family in a country we came to know and love.