My host family is Ecuador was super incredible. I was the only student living with them and was able to get to know the family well even though I was there for just one month.One thing that was special to me were the children of the family. Being able to invest in those children was truly a blessing.
Another thing that really impacted me was when one of the aunts who was very sick would stay at the house. She was having problems with a brain tumor and needed to go to Miami for a
serious operation, but the greater illness was the depression that plagued her. Sometimes her husband would bring her to the house and family members would surround her with love and try to get her to eat or walk, but she couldn't and wouldn't. Her husband would stay downstairs, talking to be about politics or religion or anything other than his sick wife while the others would work with her upstairs. I felt humbled to be there during that struggle.
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