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All's Well Ends Well: A Traveler's Tale

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Salut, There’s that old saying that lifetimes can pass in a few weeks while some weeks feel like a lifetime. Or at least I’m paraphrasing wherever I heard it from. Anyhow, the last two weeks have truly felt so long, but that’s because it was Halloween week then fall break. Also, I think the title is a vague unintentional allusion to a Hong Kong comedy film and a Shakespearean play, but just ignore that.   The post will feel a bit like my post about my time in Naryn, where I have many stories about traveling and random tourists/people I found along the way. I loved traveling with other volunteers, my mom, and my friend Bhaavya, but being alone is always interesting. This was my first time truly traveling entirely by myself to another country and on my own (usually, I’m with someone or going to meet someone). But I’m getting ahead of myself.  Halloween swept in, roaring through school amidst the final week of classes for the quarter. I had my students do several word searche