I am waking up in less than 5 hours and leaving for the airport in less than 7.. I’m not fantastic at getting adequate amounts of sleep. At least that seems to be less of a shortcoming in Buenos Aires! According to my research, they tend to eat dinner around 11, hit the bars around 2, and party until work the next morning at 8.. Slight exaggeration? Who knows; maybe it’s a town of superhumans! I will have to confirm or deny the existence of this extreme lifestyle after a few days in my new hometown.
I am feeling a bit disoriented, not just because it’s 2:56 in the morning, but because I cannot believe that after all this preparation and time (2 months of winter break!), I am finally leaving. Sometimes I have to stop whatever I am doing and let it sink in. It hasn’t sunk in yet, but maybe it won’t until I set foot in this exotic, European city in South America. I am going to miss friends and family in Madison and Chicago so much, but this feels right for me at this point in my life. I love new experiences and being thrown into crazy situations that help me learn more about the world and myself.
To sum up this last entry before I am on a different continent, in a different time zone, and consumed by a different reality, I am simultaneously ecstatic and on edge. I am anxious about so many things.. That I won’t know where I’m going, that I won’t be able to understand anyone, that I will fail all my classes, and that my suitcase might be over 50 pounds.. I should probably weigh that before I leave. Okay, time to stop worrying. Yay everything! I hope to change people’s lives and I hope that people change mine. I have no idea what to expect, but maybe that’s the best way to go sometimes.
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