One Month

I only have 1 month left in this beautiful country. My official departure date is June 21st (I had to change it to earlier due to college orientation) and I’ll arrive back “home” early morning on June 22nd. Now that I’m officially within one month of coming home it finally makes it real that my year in Chile is not infinite. Obviously when I came here I knew that after one year it would be over- yet getting on that plane back to the U.S. just seemed so far away.

The going away parties for my fellow exchange students have started. Being with other exchange students is just something special- no matter where we are or what we are doing its always automatically fun. Most of the going away parties end with us all crying at 3 in the morning because there are those moments moments when it hits us that we don’t know when we will all see each other again.

Leaving the U.S. to embark on my exchange year was so difficult- yet I knew that without a doubt in 10 months I would be back home. Leaving Chile is going to be a whole different story because I have no clue when I will have the money or the opportunity to come back. Hopefully I’ll be able to return to visit in the next couple of years and all of my Chilean friends will still be here. Yet I have no idea when I will be able to go see all of my exchange student friends- unfortunately I’m not a millionaire who has the money to travel all over the U.S. including Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Germany, and France.

But instead of just complaining of how hard my life is, (poor little exchange student who has to end the best year of their life) I’m just trying to enjoy my last month here.

the first of many going away parties