-Make calendar
-Study (two midterms this week)
-Read "Everything Is Illuminated"
-Journal
-Scholarships
-Letters
-Write in composition book
-Draw
Trying to balance out things I would like to do with things I have to do. Basically I've set up a good alone-day to do alone-things.
Everyday when I think about leaving Argentina (which is several times a day) I feel a knot in my stomach and a whole lot of confusion. I don't like thinking about it. On the one hand I know that there are great things to look forward to, an apartment off campus, lovely people... but I am not looking forward to it yet. It feels distant yet looming over me. Living here is my-life-part-two... related to part one but completely different. I feel strange about revisiting part one.
I feel that I have NOT been speaking a lot of Spanish, and this really upsets me. I don't want to speak English anymore.
La verdad es que no sé que quiero. No puedo decidir donde quiero ir, o con quien. Me siento como una persona viviendo en un mundo imaginario, dentro de una burbuja. No puedo decidir si es mejor no pensar en el futuro, viviendo en el presente...
Supongo que esto es una tristeza normal, que solo viene debez en cuando y solo queda para momentos, horas, quizas un día. A veces cuando intento de entender cada palabra que dice una persona, no entiendo ningún.
Cosas que estoy haciendo o he hecho: visitando parques, cocinando (mucho), ir a la partida de fútbol de amigos acá, dibujando, aprendiendo canciones en la guitarra, tomando collectivos, grabando (en cassette), visitar una estancia (la finde pasada), feria en San Telmo, comprar entradas a Regina Spektor en Octubre (!)...
Tengo dos parciales esta semana, y uno el proximo viernes. Entonces, voy a tener una semana entero de vacaciones...queiro hacer algo copado pero no sé donde ni con quien. Pienso que quiero ir a Uruguay porque es re cerca y no va a costar mucho. Tambien mis amigos estaban hablando sobre el posibilidad de hacer "WWOOF" (http://www.wwoof.org/) para una semana. No sé si ellos estan serio, pero pienso que quiero hacerlo si- no pronto, quizas en Diciembre. (Quiero ir a Patagonia en Diciembre y sería bueno si puedo hacer WWOOF para una semana antes.)
besos
amor.amor.amor.
7 comments:
Did i tell you i read "everything is illuminated" in the wilderness? I loved it.
i dont think you did! i really need to finish it...
i'm gonna be doing a lot of online translating if this blog stays in spanish
@Cam: I like the idea of "Everything is Illuminated in the Wilderness" as a title or phrase or something.
Claudi:
1. I stopped when it got to the Spanish. I've found out lately that I have a lot harder time understanding it when it is written. probably because I can't spell. Will go back and try another time.
But I am glad that you are writing in Español.
2. Please remind me what Everything Is Illuminated is about. I love JSF and I read it but for some reason I have never been able to remember it. I can't find my copy (if it is true that I have one). The book has been coming up a lot lately, not sure why.
3. I don't want you to think about leaving Argentina. I want to spend some time in Chile in the next year....but there's also 50 other things I want to do in the next year. For a minute I forgot that you are a year younger and cannot go there with me some time because you'll still have school. I want to find someone to go with me. Then I thought, if I lived with Claudia, I would be a different person. Not in any particular way, but the knowledge that I would be different came to me and I like that.
Alyssa,
I would love to travel with you. let's.
Okay Everything is Illuminated (in the wilderness) is about Jonathan Safran Foer, the author, who goes to Ukraine to search for someone in a picture, and he gets shown around by a young boy and his grandfather and dog. I re-picked it up today and decided I would finally finish it. There is also a backstory of people living in a village in Ukraine.
met jonathon safran foer in berlin...had a drink with him. AMAZINGGGGG guy. we talked about extremely loud and incredibly close for awhile
i read everything is illuminated but we didnt talk too much about that one. thought you ought to know. also, i will make sure you have fun when back in boston..dont feel like its looming :(
did you see him at bc last year? i should remember this. i think it was just me and livia and he talked about eating animals. thats awesome you got to have a drink with him, i do like his writing a lot.
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