Well Steven has headed back to the US, he left last night at 930 and has landed safely in Atlanta and is on his way to Sacramento as we speak. It was hard but I know that I only have 5 more months more or less and its really not that long. I can't believe how quickly the time has gone by. Jannie comes in a week and she will be here for 2 weeks, which will go by like a flash, we are going to Uruguay. Then I have my Portuguese class everyday from 9 to 12 in the morning until the start of school, I will be busy busy busy! I'm happy though. I want to be busy! When Steven and I returned back to the city, we do so many touristy things that I hadn't yet done and I'm glad because they were great. We went to the Planetarium, then the Cementary where all the rich and the famous are buried of Argentina like Evita Peron and Jose Hernandez (the famous author), we went to lots of little fairs to look at the great Argentine artisan work. What else?I gave my mate cup to Steven and sent him home with some mate, he loves it! I'm so happy, now I'll have someone to drink mate with when I get home. I have to go and search for a new mate cup now though....that's ok. I'm just happy he loves the tradition as much as I do. We went to Bond St., a little strip mall full of tattoo parlors and funky clothes. O and we went rollerblading in the park, that was the most fun! Since I grew up in a place that had mainly mountains and hills I never really went rollerblading as a kid. So I kinda remembered how to do it, I fell only two times on my ass, so no worries. I'm definitely going to go there and do it more often. It was great! Good leg workout. Today, I'm going to meet with my Argentine group of athletic females and we are going to do yoga in one of their houses. I signed up with this group before my trip to the south but I haven't gone to one of the meetings, so I'm excited to go today!
What else? O I thought after speaking English for 20 days with only a few instances of Spanish speaking would totally ruin my Spanish skills but actually I think it has improved. I now can listen to someone speaking Spanish while I speak English to someone else and understand both languages at the same time. Its sooooo cool! I'm really happy. O and my New Years Resolutions are: to get a six pack haha (got a little four pack right now so that's good since I gave up eating redmeat! o my gosh), no smoking no matter what! (I gave up smoking when I met Steven but I always sneaked some when I would drink or whatever but now I don't want to have any disgusting cigarette enter my body at all, it was difficult when I came here because EVERYONE smokes and that's not an exaggeration. This is why I loved Chile so much and Santiago especially, because NO ONE smokes, I swear!) Anyway I was really proud of myself because we went out the other night and had a couple of drinks and like I said, EVERYONE was smoking in the club, in my face, and I didn't smoke or didn't want to smoke at all. So so sosososo proud of myself! I'm really sticking to this one. I never really liked smoking, so I don't know why I ever did it in the first place. Anyway, and the last one is to get into Grad school. I have decided I want to Master in International Affairs with a concentration in Environmental Issues. That was my goal for coming to Latin America, to find what I wanted to concentrate in, now I know. Yay!
So Steven really loved the country, the food, and my roomies. He said we are all family forever now and wants them to come to California. He is soooo sweet, he said he would fly them out when we becomes rich and famous. He is such a good guy! And one of my friends told me I was really lucky because his girlfriend (they are Argentine), would never let him do what I am doing, she would never stay by his side while he studied in a foreign country. And yes, I am lucky, we both are for finding each other. But never again will I leave his side, next time I travel or live in a foreign country, he HAS to come. This time was really hard to say goodbye! Anyway, I'm off to go back to my daily life until Jannie comes then more traveling. Wow I'm going to be sooo tired afterwards haha
Love Rachel!
CHAU CHAU!!!
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