finality

I am getting into the final week here so who knows if there will be another post- considering I’ve been so terrible about writing this entire time, I’d say it’s safe to say this will be the last. HOW SAD, RIGHT?

In conclusion, it’s hard to say my favorite part or if the trip was better this year or etc. etc. because it was all soooo different. Yeah I bought shoes, and yess I ate a lot of alfajores just like last year but I think if I had to summarize the experience with one word, I’d choose “comfort”.

Last night, my friend Hanna and I failed to make it to the Artists fair before it closed, so we went trolloping around until we met up with some other international students that were in Centro to see someone off. As we parked outside of a little delivery restaurant to eat a final lomo sandwich (bread…meat…egg…cheese…mayonnaise…lettuce…etc….), we were all talking in English but then our friend Any came to say bye to Hanna, and it was like “Ooh, ok an Argy person now we speak in Spanish but with no problem”

When I say comfort, I don’t mean just in terms of using my Spanish, I mean in basically ever aspect of my life here. I can go buy stuff, use the busses, talk to strangers in kioscos and order ice cream without the anxiety that I had last year or even for the first month or two.

I always feel like I’m making lists, so I’ll do one for the bittersweet things I’ll miss in Arg and of COURSE my memory is crap so I’ll forget loads but I mean ew whatever.

-street dogs

-street whistles

-street art (graffiti)

-kioscos (convenience stores)

-fernet (alcohol)

-slow colectivos on Sundays (busses)

-boliches (clubs)

-my yelping dogs

-emotion

-alfajores (desert)

-pritty (a soda like mountain dew)

-facturas (croissants, etc.)

-the rubbish coffee

-mah fwiendss

-mah family

-chicken milanesas

-the opportunity to experience something new every day and be in a country SO CLOSE TO BRAZIL

Basically…I can’t wait to come back. So although I’ll be home July 2^nd, I don’t foresee it being for a really extended stay in the states.

Until next time, xoxo

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