Well hello December, where the heck did you come from? It never seizes to amaze me how fast time goes. Weeks feel like a couple of days and days a few hours. How have I been abroad for nearly 3 months? It’s crazy. So now that December has arrived I’m pretty content to have a piece of chocolate from my Dora Advent Calendar every day. Sure, I probably should have grown out Advent calendars by now but it’s one of those things along with snail mail that just make me happy. (Here’s a hint if you want to be in my good books and make my day, send me a letter). The other thing that makes me pretty happy is to know that I’m in the home stretch of being done this semester since there are only two weeks left until I will be on a plane home. I'm looking forward to seeing friends and family, if only for a short time but I know that they will help ground me. I think that the intensity of this course sometimes gets me off track and I know that my family will remind me of what I came here to do and get me focused and motivated to come back and finish the last six months of the course. Anyway, I know this is a short post but I wanted to take a second to wish those of you at home about to start exams the best of luck and also to wish Heather a very happy day of birth. Love to all and can’t wait to see you soon.