Countdown

This is Ameri. She's in Ukraine with some giant cotton candy.

Before she left to come home to the States, she made a giant list of numbers. Here it is... (thanks for sharing, Ameri!)

5 months

141 days

20 weeks

6,000 miles away from home aka

9,300 kilometers

2 lost pieces of luggage

25 scared girls

1 day of training

1 "mild" winter

6 different languages

5 different currencies

72 hours in train rides

5 metro passes

1 friendly parcel of mail

27 awesome Americans

26 hours of skype time with family and friends

140 episodes of "How I Met Your Mother"

4 awesome jam sessions on Rock Band

50 hours on a tour bus (approximate)

408 games of Sudoku

49 metro stops

1 desire to work for the American Embassy one day

1 Black Sea

5 Kyiv temple trips

1 cooking class

1 sleepover with all the girls

6 different months

12 hours of Russian class

3 Tanias

20+ calls with the director

1 culture shock hair cut

1 21st Birthday

2 beds shared by

3 girls

6 coordinators at my schools

2 moves to different schools

2 many hours on facebook

0 guitars to play

1 new electric oven

1,000,000,000,000+ flying cotton things

1,000,000+ pidgeons

40+ visits to McDonalds

16 plays on my iTunes "Coming Home" playlist

32 hours of total travel time

3 airports

3 different sized airplanes

16 hours of flight time

1 reunion during LAX layover

1 Costa Vida sweet pork salad waiting with

2 awesome parents

1 not hungry stomach, but

1 exhausted girl, happy to be back in the land of the free and home of the brave.