Day 22 - June 4th - Tuesday

Today consisted entirely of travel - mercifully, it only took 15 hours to make it from Madrid to San Diego, including our layover in Philadelphia. This was probably the easiest international trip home I've ever taken. It was filled with sad goodbyes though; three of our most influential team members graduated this year, including our student leader, our drama trainer, and our tech girl. When we started off the morning in Madrid, we had to say goodbye to Mr. Wilson (who is staying to do some tourism in Spain with his wife, who joined us two days ago), Emilie, and Ryan (who are going to visit their sister in Albania). When we hit Philadelphia, Heather split off from us to spend a summer in Jacksonville, Florida with a mission organization there. The rest of us reached San Diego around 8:30pm and headed off from there to either our respective homes or back to school to be picked up by family. I actually went back to school, and I'm staying in the area tonight. Dad's coming to take me home in the morning. God gave me an immense blessing when I got back, though - my "big brother"/best friend's car was in the parking lot when we reached school, so I went searching for him and we got to spend a couple of hours hanging out together! We were joined by another one of my best friends after a while, and she actually invited me to crash at her place for the night! What a joy it was to be able to spend time with two of favorite people after such a long day! :) And with that, my Spanish adventure with VISION XXI comes to a close. Thanks for following me in my continuing journey with missions! Tune in next year to hear about my upcoming travels with VISION XXII!