May and June!!!!!!!!

So with fifteen days left I find it hard to believe that time has gone by this quick. The other day I experienced the first time that I felt sad that I was leaving this place, Mi Querida Argentina. I asked myself, what I was going to miss and all of a sudden more things than I thought popped into my head. Experiences such as leaving your family, learning and living in another language, and facing the unfamiliar are just things that everyone should experience. I will be the first to let you know though that it is tough especially if you plan on going away for more than a couple months. I am one of those who experienced this and I have learned an incredible amount from these experiences, pero vale la pena.

Since the last time I blogged I have done a good amount of things. I went to an Argentina soccer game and watched the players whoop Canada In a match. It was crazy. I also went and celebrated the bicentennial here in Argentina. It was their 200^th year of being La Argentina. There was a huge festival/celebration which is really fun, crowded, and intense. Besides spending time with my friends, my favorite thing that I did last month was go to Iguazu Falls in Northeastern Argentina. It was the most incredible natural thing I have ever seen in my life. I´m not saying that I have seen a lot of other amazing natural sights in the world, but I´m pretty sure that Iguazu will be the most incredible one I will ever see. I went there with some of my friends and it was one of my favorite memories of being there. Also, while I was at Iguazu I went to this place called Las Tres Fronteras (the three borders) which is where you can be standing in Argentina and see Paraguay and Brazil over the river. It was an amazing sight as well. I hit up Chinatown here in Buenos Aires as well which was pretty cool, being that I have been to Chinatown in New York and Seattle. Also I went on a tour of the infamous Casa Rosada (Pink house) which is equivalent to the White House in the U.S. Above all, my favorite thing is to just hang out with my friends here in Argentina, and I´ve done a fair amount of that.

So having 10 more days of class left, and 15 until I return home I am going to study study study for my finals. I will also try hang out with my friends here as much as I can because I will probably never see most of them again. It´s a bittersweet feeling, one of the many that I´ve been able to experience along the way, but I think I´ve gotten used to handling it. Going places, meeting great people, and then picking up and leaving again really does suck, but at the same time the experience is worth the pain.

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln,