... I think... it doesn't really matter much what the locals think of us. What matters is that this place is really kind of an open canvas. I mean... even if when we return home, what we did here disappears... I'd like to think that at least some things get taken with us.

I know I've changed from the person I was when I got here, and the fact that I had the space to do it here... means a lot. No end of the world, no people I knew from home, just... enough time to figure things out at the pace I needed. So I'd like to think that at least that kind of growth gets taken with us in some way. Maybe our place is just... to use this time to our advantage.