I can't believe it, I'm done with my semester here, well I mean virtually! I had 1 final last week, 2 yesterday and 1 today and tomorrow I just have to take my Spanish oral before I will be completely finished with school at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires. I cannot believe how fast my time here has literally flown by. I mean, I think back to that first day in the Buenos Aires International Airport and it seems like yesterday on the one hand and so long ago on the other. I mean, life here has just become normal. It's become normal to walk down the streets of the city, to take the bus or the subte, to lay in parks and visit ferias on the weekends, to speak Spanish every day, and to live my life in a Latin American city. I don't know what it will be like to go home back to life in the United States, but I know it will be different. It's a bittersweet feeling to be going home, I mean I can't wait to sleep in my own real bed and to see my family and friends, and to eat Chipotle, Pinkberry, and all the other delicious things that I miss from home, but I also know for a fact that the minute I step off of that plane in the Houston airport it will be all I can do not to cry to have left Argentina (don't cry for me, Argentina!)
I've never been more grateful to have the experiences that I've had here. It's incredible the things I've done, and I know that when I get home I will feel like I am unstoppable, I mean, I've lived in a Latin American city of 12 million people for 5 months. If that's not something to be impressed by I don't know what is. My time here will definitely have an impact on the way I live at home, and I'm not sure if I'm happy, sad, mad, anxious, dreading, or excited about going home, particularly about going back to CLU. I can't wait to tell everyone about all of my experiences here, but at the same time I know that they won't really understand most of what I have to say. That's the way my life has repeatedly been, as it's broken up into little compartments where one group of people from my life doesn't really understand what happens in any of the other experiences in my life, but I honestly think I prefer it that way, because I can understand more of myself when I have varied experiences to allow myself to grow. It makes me appreciate everyone in my life and everything I've ever been able to do monumentally more and I've never been happier to be living my life!
My adventure is not quite over yet, as on Friday I'm off to Peru to see Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca, then on to Chile and Vina del Mar and Santiago. Machu Picchu has always been one of those mysterious far away places that you never think that you'll be able to see in real life, so I don't think it's really set in yet that I'll be there in less than a week! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world right now that I am doing all of these absolutely life-changing and unforgettable things and I couldn't be more appreciative of all of the people that have made that possible! Of course there will be pictures of all of the upcoming adventures! (there are a few more up right now from around Buenos Aires as well as our incredible trip to Iguazu Falls: http://picasaweb.google.com/Lizzaaaaaay to see them!) and I'll make sure to update at least one more entry about those adventures!
"To live is the rarest thing in the world"
-Oscar Wilde
I've never been more grateful to have the experiences that I've had here. It's incredible the things I've done, and I know that when I get home I will feel like I am unstoppable, I mean, I've lived in a Latin American city of 12 million people for 5 months. If that's not something to be impressed by I don't know what is. My time here will definitely have an impact on the way I live at home, and I'm not sure if I'm happy, sad, mad, anxious, dreading, or excited about going home, particularly about going back to CLU. I can't wait to tell everyone about all of my experiences here, but at the same time I know that they won't really understand most of what I have to say. That's the way my life has repeatedly been, as it's broken up into little compartments where one group of people from my life doesn't really understand what happens in any of the other experiences in my life, but I honestly think I prefer it that way, because I can understand more of myself when I have varied experiences to allow myself to grow. It makes me appreciate everyone in my life and everything I've ever been able to do monumentally more and I've never been happier to be living my life!
My adventure is not quite over yet, as on Friday I'm off to Peru to see Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca, then on to Chile and Vina del Mar and Santiago. Machu Picchu has always been one of those mysterious far away places that you never think that you'll be able to see in real life, so I don't think it's really set in yet that I'll be there in less than a week! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world right now that I am doing all of these absolutely life-changing and unforgettable things and I couldn't be more appreciative of all of the people that have made that possible! Of course there will be pictures of all of the upcoming adventures! (there are a few more up right now from around Buenos Aires as well as our incredible trip to Iguazu Falls: http://picasaweb.google.com/Lizzaaaaaay to see them!) and I'll make sure to update at least one more entry about those adventures!
"To live is the rarest thing in the world"
-Oscar Wilde
