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I love being home; it very well be my favorite thing. I'm excited for Christmas, and to be home for a month! (Though I might go down to the cities with Mags, or someone, and stay down there for a few days, to give us something to do. Preferably when Cait isn't there.) I was going to have Doris cut my hair today, because it's terribly overgrown, but I just don't feel like getting a haircut. I don't want short hair anymore, and so I think I'll just continue growing it out .. even though it looks terrible right now. I suppose I can just tuck it behind my ears for another month or two, and then get it cut. ... I don't know. It's so hard to find a style that I like too!
Thanksgiving was strange. I went to Cooperstown, ND. (An hour or two west of Fargo.) It was alright, I guess. I just didn't want to spend Thanksgiving with Sandy's family... Sandy's sister had a daughter who died when she was twelve. We're the exact same age, born on the exact same day, of the same year. Everyone, of course, knew this, and just sort of watched me, and listened to me talk, thinking of Alison. It was uncomfortable.
I've been noticing the Minnesotan accent like crazy these days, and have even been noticing it on myself. I honestly felt like I was in the movie Fargo!
So South America is a 100% go! May 20(or so) - June (20 or so) = Arequipa, Peru. The day after our volunteering ends, we're going to take the bus (or train) up to Cusco, Peru and see Machu Picchu. (We're hiking up to see it, rather than taking the train.) After that we plan on going south to Santiago, Chile. Stick around there for awhile, and then head over to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Stay there for a few days or so, and then go to Montevideo, Uraguay, and then head up to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil! I don't want to be in Brazil long, being that I don't speak Portuguese. Then we don't really know what we'll do, maybe go west to Paraguay, and Bolivia, and up to Lima and fly out. Michael has family in Colombia we could stay with, so maybe we'll go up there. I guess I'm not sure about that part. But! It's very exciting. :) I have to do a lot before this May, though. I don't think we have to figure out visas, or anything, being that we're not staying in one place for longer than a month. But I do need vaccines, just in case we have to go to the Amazon (though I'd surely die if we had to... fear of snakes and claustrophobia would be the death of me!) And I need a nice pack to cram some clothes and a tooth brush and lots of maps and books and a notebook or two and a camera and .. a pillow and maybe a sleep mat, i don't know yet. There's so much to thinka bout.
Thanksgiving was strange. I went to Cooperstown, ND. (An hour or two west of Fargo.) It was alright, I guess. I just didn't want to spend Thanksgiving with Sandy's family... Sandy's sister had a daughter who died when she was twelve. We're the exact same age, born on the exact same day, of the same year. Everyone, of course, knew this, and just sort of watched me, and listened to me talk, thinking of Alison. It was uncomfortable.
I've been noticing the Minnesotan accent like crazy these days, and have even been noticing it on myself. I honestly felt like I was in the movie Fargo!
So South America is a 100% go! May 20(or so) - June (20 or so) = Arequipa, Peru. The day after our volunteering ends, we're going to take the bus (or train) up to Cusco, Peru and see Machu Picchu. (We're hiking up to see it, rather than taking the train.) After that we plan on going south to Santiago, Chile. Stick around there for awhile, and then head over to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Stay there for a few days or so, and then go to Montevideo, Uraguay, and then head up to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil! I don't want to be in Brazil long, being that I don't speak Portuguese. Then we don't really know what we'll do, maybe go west to Paraguay, and Bolivia, and up to Lima and fly out. Michael has family in Colombia we could stay with, so maybe we'll go up there. I guess I'm not sure about that part. But! It's very exciting. :) I have to do a lot before this May, though. I don't think we have to figure out visas, or anything, being that we're not staying in one place for longer than a month. But I do need vaccines, just in case we have to go to the Amazon (though I'd surely die if we had to... fear of snakes and claustrophobia would be the death of me!) And I need a nice pack to cram some clothes and a tooth brush and lots of maps and books and a notebook or two and a camera and .. a pillow and maybe a sleep mat, i don't know yet. There's so much to thinka bout.