Day 6

Today was the last full day of our exchange and emotions are high. Everyone has a feeling of pride and accomplishment in the work that we have achieved and so today we used our time to work on our Youth pass. Afterwards we went around the circle and made our comments about the performance and about the exchange. It was a very emotional conversation so to liven the mood we went in a circle complementing eachother. Its amazing to see how people can create such a strong bond in such a short time. Tonight we will have our going away party and at 7:30 tomorrow morning we will say goodbye to Ezcaray and make our journeys back home. 

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