My host family is absolutely great as you all already know. I keep boasting about them and really can’t stop. I am so sad to be leaving them so soon! Only after two days I felt close to them and now with only a week or so left I feel like I would be saying goodbye to my real family. Coming home everyday after work, talking about our days, eating a lot of food, making popcorn and sitting down to watch a movie, all of these things make Argentina feel like my true home. After traveling for a few days, it felt great to sit down and converse with my family and sleep in my own bed! It was also nice to come home to my other family: thehhhhhhhhkids. It was sooo nice coming back and being with them again. There huge smiles, simple happiness and warm souls just make me as happy as anyone can be. The girls at the orphanage are literally like my sisters and it will be so sad to say goodbye. This past Friday they had an event at their school for the 200th Anniversary of the revolution and I went like some crazy sibling snapping photos at every moment. Spending 4 days apart was more than enough! We gave each other the biggest hugs after being apart and it was wonderful! Wednesday (5/26) I came back from Buenos Aires and worked at the Dining Hall right after. I played soccer with the kids all night, ended up buying them some Coca-cola and cookies because they beat me in soccer (fyi it was a pretty close game). Just being here is amazing and each and every child has an impact on me. Watching all the crazy boys on the soccer field running around, pushing and shoving trying to get to the same soccer ball is not only hilarious but gives me the biggest smile. There are so many different moments with each kid that make me smile when I think back on them. I honestly could go on writing about all of this forever so I guess I am just going to leave it as I love Argentina. I love everything about it and it has given me SO much happiness. I just hope I am spreading that out just as equally to those that I encounter here.
The other Saturday the kids at soccer had a match against another team in Cordoba. It was a ton of fun!! They were so cute with their jerseys and goal cheering. : )
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