I'm in McMinnville, Oregon. I do not have my visa quite yet, but hopefully will manage to within the next 2 weeks. Everything is pretty roller-coastery. I can't really believe what I'm doing and so soon and I get angry at myself when I'm ever being inefficient with my time. In the last 3 days I have said chow to a few of my favorite people. On Saturday my family said goodbye to our dear friend Kat and watched him peacefully depart this world that we know.Sunday, Timmy left and then today my dad Anderson and Ashley Sister left. Everyone is leaving me before I leave. Goodbyes are hard, but I'm constantly reminding myself that I'll see them before I know it.Not even a year. Today I started to get my clothes out for what I think I want to pack. Pretty sure it's gonna be too much and I'll have waaaay too much to wear! Hopefully not super too much. I'm super excited to see who my host fam bam is! It's kinda hard to be excited because I don't have my visa and everytime I get excited about my adventure I get reminded that I don't have my visa. I'm not the only one who doesn't have their visa in the group...so that's a tiny bit comforting. Maybe we'll see each other at the Consulate of Chile's San Francisco office to pick up our visas days before we leave. Next time I need a visa, I'm going to go beyond using my common sense and not assume anything. I'm learning so much about going abroad already! I've been thinking a lot lately about what might stand out about me 6,000 miles away in Chile. Maybe that I have zero skills eating with a knife and a fork. That's what I'm the most worried about.
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