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The years following my Peace Corps service in Peru have quickly added up and this blog has yet to find the closure it deserves. Reading through my last post, written over two years ago, I can see that the promised stories and photos chronicling the many goodbyes and the travels that followed with my cousin Gabriel never found their way here. Though I do intend to follow through on that promise, I’m gonna skip ahead for now and explain how I ended back up in Peru for a third time (that’s right, Round Three!). So much has happened in the past couple years that Peru: Round Two never even hit the radar of this blog! But I’m getting ahead of myself again. Let’s rewind just a bit… After the goodbyes, the close of service paperwork, and the wild travel adventures, I made it back home by mid-November 2014; just in time to celebrate my niece Lotus’s 4 th birthday, send my sister off to her senior year winter formal, and enjoy a long-awaited, gluttonous Perez Family holiday season. Anyone ...

After wrapping up my Peace Corps service on November 4th, I spent a week and a half traveling around Perú with my cousin, Gabriel, saying farewell to this beautiful country I called home for the last two years. The past two weeks have been spent soaking in my return to the States and enjoying some much needed family time as the holiday season begins. But before I detail the adventures of Jamie and Gabriel and my long awaited arrival home, there are some larger details I haven't had the time to share from my last month in site. So it's time to play a little catch-up. My last few weeks in site were pretty wild. It was a whirlwind of finishing up last minute projects, helping with trainings, packing the past two years into three small bags and saying goodbye to my friends and family who helped me through this experience. Time flew by in that last month, as time tends to slip away when you need it the most, and I was nervous I wouldn't be able to get it all done. Luckily, I h...