Hello all!  First off, I want to apologize for my lack of activity on KombuchaCHIC.  Life has been a whirlwind of changes and uncertainty, and now that things are finally stabilizing, I can refocus my energy here.  I want to let everyone know a little bit of what has happened in the past three months.  I’ll start with the bad news first.

The Bad:

We had to leave Costa Rica and come back home.  I talked a bit about this on our other blog, and I’d prefer not to elaborate on the reasons why we had to make this difficult decision.  I will say that our three months living there, was very difficult and we faced many challenges on daily living.  Putting our dreams aside was painful, but we both realized that sometimes you have to make sacrifices in order to move forward in life.  There is a good side to this, though.

The Good:

Home is where the heart is and I truly feel at ease coming back to Utah.  This is where the majority of our family and friends live, so we have a much larger support system than we did in Costa Rica.  It was very hard to live in such isolation.  Sometimes, the best thing you can do for yourself is to be around people who care for you truly and deeply.  I also have a much broader variety of foods to eat here.  Eating raw wasn’t really an option where we lived, and I’m very happy to be back eating in a way that makes me feel healthy.  Shardul is happy, too. 

The Unknown:

What next you ask?  We’d like to know ourselves!  Right now, I’m looking into going back to school and finished my degree in Visual Art & Design.  It’s been about 3 years since I was last in school, so it may be a challenge getting back into the swing of things.  I’m thinking I want to broaden my studies into other areas as well.  Joe and I played around with the idea of moving to another mountain town for the snowboarding season, and we may try that at some point.  I think I’m going to take yoga teacher training so I can become an instructor.  Getting back into teaching dance might be another option.

So a lot is in the air right now, but we’re gradually getting our feet back on the ground.  One of my goals for this summer is to finally finish that second issue of One Week Raw.  Check back soon for updates on that, and other exciting ventures into the world of raw food!