Refleción

As we are now in december I realize that I have less than a month remaining in the great nation of Chile. As I take a break from my finals to prepare for one last night at Journal I look back on what a time I have had here. I had tea with my Chilean mom today and just talked with her. It wasnt out of the ordinary but it was just a perfect talk about life and experiences. Then at dinner we discussed hand gun laws, and what I am going to be doing about it when I work in the White House. (My Chilean mom has told me that I have to work in the White House one day, and I also have to become the next Bill Gates so that I can buy her a house on the coast of Chile) For those of you who do not know Vivi, thats a little preview of my wild and crazy, somewhat spacey but none the less fantastic host mom.

The last four ish months have been such a whirlwind of life that its hard to sum up. Im glad I have been blogging so one day I can go back and relive all the fun memories I have had. But this blog is a little different. Nothing overly exciting has happened, I havent traveled anywhere, and I dont have any wild and crazy nights to recount. Just normal things like listening to my host brother practice the same 5 measures of some random song that he just learned on the recorder. Or listening to Vivi dance around the kitchen singing everything from Phantom of the Opera to Old McDonald had a farm, to Fernando always saying dont worry be happy in his very chilean english accent. I have been so lucky to get a family like the Weissers I cannot even describe.

Then there is school. Yes school is school even in south america, but I realized today how cool it is that I finished a ten page research paper in spanish. I groan and grumble every time a DU professor tells me to write ten pages and thats in the language I have spoken for my entire life. I arrived in Chile not knowing what the hell I was gonna do with myself. I understood about 2 percent of what the lady on the plane from atlanta said to me. I had no vocabulary, and my favorite word was si. I replied si to everything. But its amazing what happens when you live in a culture. I will never forget the transformation of my language skills, and hope desperately I can hold on to them. Well first week of finals is over, one short weekend and two finals before school in south america is finished.

Disfruta la vida pero aprende aprende aprende cada dia sin falta.