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GIVE: Tips for Transitioning Home

Written by: Haley Watkins

6/27/2014

You do not transition.

You sit and re-live your GIVE excursion every single day because your adventure has now become a part of you. You wake up confused why you’re cold and not tangled in a mosquito net. When your mom makes you breakfast and it is not coconut bread French toast, a little piece of you dies inside. Even more heartbreaking: they don’t have any real coconut bread recipes online. My friends get irritated talking to me because I haven’t stopped talking about Monty’s Surf Camp or diving in Little Corn. They also are really confused about my new choice of music, “Rum & Redbull” and “Jump,” because why would a small town girl be listening to Reggae?

My transition has been a hard one. 

But after 3 weeks of being home, I started to realize that I will not wake up on the Island to the sound of the ocean. Once that set in, my closest friends (from the trip) and I haven’t been able to stop planning our next trip back. We cannot accept the fact that we are home.

 

So my tips for transitioning once you arrive in rainy Olympia, Washington, (or wherever you live) are:

1) Plan your next trip as soon as possible so you have something amazing to look forward to.

2) Attempt to carry on your regular activities like that fun summer job that is waiting for you.

Also, as much as you want to, don’t stalk the other groups on Facebook. It is absolute torture and you will be envious of the group that replaced you sand-boarding down Cerro Negro.

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