Answer these on the way home, while the trip is still close enough to be honest about. None of them are about what you saw.
1. What were you most afraid of before you left? Did it happen?
2. What did you do on this trip that you would not have believed you could do a year ago?
3. Write the full name of one local person you met.
4. If you cannot, write down why.
5. What was the hardest day? Not the most dramatic. The hardest.
6. Did you eat something that frightened you? What was it like?
7. What was the best decision you made?
8. What was the worst, and are you sure doing it differently would have been better?
9. What money was completely worth it?
10. What money do you regret?
11. What part of who you are at home did you not need here? Are you taking it back?
12. What did you already know about yourself that this confirmed?
13. Finish this honestly, not aspirationally.
I came home ________________________ than I left.
These questions have no correct answers. They have honest ones and dishonest ones, and you already know which of yours were which.