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Last morning in the hostel! Although I'm sorry to say it wasn't my last night here, technically, since we didn't get back until around 4:30 and at that point there was really no point in going to bed, as two of us had to leave about 15 minutes later. Not that it was even an option for me in the first place - someone's sleeping in my bed, Goldilocks!

It hit us around Thursday that we only had a matter of hours left together and we haven't wasted any time since. I've gotten a solid three hours of sleep in the last two nights, which may be more than some of the others. While I've been a bit anxious to get out of the hostel and into my own bedroom at least, I hadn't really thought about how much I would miss everyone! But now it's 6:40 AM and within the next 5 hours and 20 minutes we'll all be gone, and even though I know we all made the most of our time together, I can't even imagine facing big bad Costa Rica without Silvia's British humor or Elke forgetting I'm American and starting conversations in German.

My host family should be here to get me between 10 and 11 and I still need to make a trip to the market to get them a housewarming gift, plus I'm freezing my butt off right now (who would have guessed?), so I'm going to sign off now. Thanks to everyone who's been following me so far! I know that from this point forward I won't be able to post as frequently as I have been, but at this point I have no idea what frequency that will be. So try to stick with me... and I'll talk to you all soon!