Final Entry

Back home, at long last, in Seattle, Washington, USA.

I'd just like to thank you all for your love and support and for helping make this opportunity possible for me. This year was by the far the best year of my life and I'm blessed to have had such great friends and family supporting me from home.

I love you guys! Here's to the next adventure.

Liz

"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Less Than 24 Hours Left

Last day on this continent.

Wow.

Be seeing you all soon!

"God will have begun to do serious work through us."
--Glen Argan

That's A Wrap

Indeed, things are wrapping up fast. Finals start tomorrow. People are already packing. Our plane leaves early Wednesday morning. How is this possible???

Our final Gala took place last night on the rooftop of the beautiful, 4-star Grand Hotel Baglioni. Everyone dressed up and snapped pictures as twilight fell over the city. The view was incredible – you could see for miles, and we were so close one felt they could almost reach out and touch the Duomo. Dinner, speeches, and awards followed; we laughed a lot, cried a little, and toasted one incredible year.

Today we hiked to the top of the Duomo and took even MORE pictures of the surrounding city. We climbed over 400 spiraling stairs and finally emerged into the sun, dizzy and panting, hundreds of feet in the air…

The weather has been amazing and I’ve been putting on the pounds thanks to even more delicious food than usual.

Happy April Fool’s Day everyone! Go out and prank your friends…I definitely did…

Love to all!

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

--C.S. Lewis