Home again. It is funny to me how comfortable I have gotten with this family in such a short period of time. After traveling for the past 4 days or so during the long weekend, it was nice coming back home to Rio Ceballos. I knew I would be greeted with hugs and besos followed by a good amount of food (I was right!). My travels were absolutely amazing and added a total different element to my trip here in Argentina. Traveling and being a total hippie is a whole different experience in itself. Planning your schedule, going out by yourself, discovering new people and places, it is a journey any nineteen year old could dream of. It pushed me out of my comfort zone, forced me to try new things and most of all, put my spanish to the test! I feel incredibly fortunate to have experienced everything I have within the past 3 weeks, let alone the past year. The adventures, the people and places I have encountered have been branded into my heart and soul forever. I will carry the lessons that they taught me and be sure to hold onto them forever for losing it all would just be a sin. I wish I had the time and dinero to revisit all my host families and tell them how I still think about them all the time. To the one host family in the middle of no where Bolivia, with no phone or source of communication, that even though my stay was brief, their impact on me will never fade. I still see the faces and hear the voices of all the kids running in the street screaming, “A la Cancha!!” or the faces with tears rolling down their cheeks as my companions and I say goodbye for possibly forever. All these little moments from this one big year is truly what makes a Gap Year. But really, it shouldn’t be called that because there are no gaps left in my body or soul. It is complete, hearty and ready to conquer anything that comes my way. It was a very FULL year.
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