It is too much- I will sum up.

My time here has taught me many, many things. Bad French, for one. I don't have the strength in my feeble typing fingers to go through the full five months. But this is a condensed "Sparknotes" of sorts, for what I've learned here.

I have learned, first and foremost, of the hopelessness of humanity (in a worldly sense). This wisdom was given to me after many nights lying awake, furious with the world and it's brokeness. Finally I realized that my hope was lying in the wrong place. This has made all the difference in the world to me.

If your faith doesn't lie in a person, what is it to you if they make a mistake? What is it to you if they don't listen to reason? We have not been put on this earth to fight the world into begrudginly accepting Jesus as their/our savior. We are here to live a life of active worship to Jesus, and those who see how we carry ourselves and desire to be like us, will.

It is difficult to express the amount of joy this gives me.

I have learned more recently that God will take care of me financially. I never liked the concept of college debt. It seems contraindicated to go into thousands of dollars of debt so that you can maybe get a job. But through this trip, God has taken care of me especially well in the area of finance.

The first story about that I've already written, in the post "Why I Believe God Exists."

The second story is much longer, time wise, and shorter, story wise. Over all these five months, I've been rationing my food supply to about four dollars a day. Actually, that's not exactly right. I've been rationing my everything supply to four dollars a day. So when I went out and bought a souvenir for someone, that cut into my week's spending.

So the first of God's provisions for me is that I didn't starve. To the contrary, I actually gained weight while I was here.

The second provision was that at the end of my time, I had about 1500 dollars left over. That's after souvenirs, guest house stays, and the trip back up (which was expensive).

I'm not actually sure if he's aware of it, but my plan is to give the excess to a local pastor, who is trying to build a church to house his growing congregation.

So those of you who donated to get me here, not only did you succeed at that, but you built a solid percentage of a church. On his behalf and of course my own, thank you.

Those are the big spiritual lessons.

I also learned about giving over to God the problems I have with people. This revelation is owed to my co-worker Igor, and my inability to speak French at the time.

I learned how to be an adult among adults, and not just a teenager, because there were no teenagers to be teenagerish with. That was difficult at first, but I think overall, it made me a better person.

I learned not to drink the water.

I learned some fairly decent French. I can only talk to people who realize they're talking to someone for whom French is a second language, but I'd say that's solid progress.

And finally, I learned how to abruptly end a blog post.