After my first month(ish), I was starting to doubt whether or not I really wanted to work in the development field, or at least whether or not I wanted to work abroad. It was kind of a strange feeling because I´ve always loved traveling to other countries and working in the communities and interacting with the local people. I wasn´t sure why I was feeling this way. During my other experiences, I never seemed to mind the material conditions, but here I was starting to get tired of the dust, the dirt, the lack of sunshine (I admit, that will always be a challenge for me if I live somewhere where it's always cloudy!), etc. It was really starting to worry me... I discovered last week that I think the main reason I was feeling this
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