Dec 4th, 2008
I’m Home!
I survived my semester abroad, but my computer did not. I am home now and I am so thrilled to be back in the US. I had a lot of positive, uplifting, and fun blog posts that I had written and saved on my computer until I had adequate internet access to upload them. Sadly, my computer began blinking the black file folder of death. I took it to a computer technician in Buenos Aires and the bitchiest women I have ever met assured me there was no hope of salvaging anything. She ended up replacing the hard drive and I had to fight with her to keep the broken one. However, I am at home in North Carolina and the nearest APPLE store is at least four hours away. I have been sleeping and doing absolutely nothing since I got back and I couldn’t be happier. I wasn’t sad about leaving Buenos Aires at all, but I did realize that in the end it was a really fun semester and I grew up a lot in many different ways. I made a lot of great memories and am appreciative for the experiences that I had there but I do regret the fact that I didn’t fall in love with Buenos Aires. In fact, the thought of spending another day there does not appeal to me in any way.
However, all of my now irrelevant blog posts that are hiding somewhere on my hard drive highlighted the amazing trips I went on during my my last month in Argentina. It definitely was the best time of the semester despite all the finals and stupid things we had to do. I went to Bariloche, the Parque Nacional de los Glaciares (AMAZING!) and to Rio de Janeiro. Each trip deserves its own post, to try summarize them all collectively would accomplish nothing. Perhaps I will get that done in the next few days…
Right now, I am just glad to be home in a comfortable, beautiful, and peaceful place. I sleep in until 9:30 (really late for me), go for a run on the beach or along the river, eat breakfast with my mom, read or watch TV and chat with my family about how silly Argentina is, and then go to the beach with my little brother and sister when they get home from school. It has been so nice to not have to think about anything or try and figure out how to ride the bus somewhere. I haven’t missed Buenos Aires at all, even though life on Pleasure Island, North Carolina (I’m not joking, my parents live on a small island called Pleasure Island) as it is in Buenos Aires, I am content chilling here for a few weeks. I have had a lot of opportunities to reflect on everything that I saw, learned, and experienced since I left for Israel in May. It’s been the most exciting seven months of life and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. More to come! Also, I can’t wait to go back to CMC!