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First 2 Months

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  7/20/22 That is the date of my arrival here. It has been over two months now and I have accumulated many wonderful memories, met an incredible amount of awesome people and noticed many interesting/different things. When I arrived in Memphis, I walked across the airport because the reclaim passage was on the other end. During these 5 minutes I was proud that I had successfully made this journey. When I walked down the moving stairs into the room where my baggage would be, my host family was already waiting on me there. The Jacksons are a family of 5 - Neal & Becca, the parents, and Solomon, Rose and Dean. With Solomon being the oldest and Dean the youngest. After waiting there for a good 10 minutes and getting to know each other my baggage finally arrived. We grabbed it and walked out of the airport. I remember the shock, I was in an AC-controlled environment for the past 20 hours so when the 37  °C/100  ° F weather punched me in the face it was really a big shock.  When we were i