In limbo

I am in limbo. Visiting Ann Arbor this week has given me a great chance to see friends and partially revive a nightlife that really doesn't exist at home. But as wonderful as it is to catch up, go on adventures and relax, I am not in the school world right now. My weekend time is unhampered by the pressures of schoolwork, unlike my friends, and to end this incomplete thought, I am getting very ready to go to Argentina and be back in the flow of things.

Desperately seeking schedule.

besitos
-j

challenged

Right now I don't feel challenged. My intellect, my skills, my urge to be productive and helpful, none of these are being tried or tested and after being at U-M, where the feeling of being challenged is omnipresent, I don't really know what to do with myself.

One good thing from all this free time is that I have the chance to think about and think through some things that I often push back because frankly, dealing with them doesn't facilitate getting from one day to the next.

The good and the bad of waiting.

besitos
-j

calm before the storm

these days I have an almost sinful amount of free time. I wake up virtually whenever I want, do as much or as little as I want. I play with my dog, I fuck around on Tumblr, do some research for a friend. After almost a month at home I have somewhat accepted the relative nothingness that my days have the potential to be. As Argentina draws closer, there are more practical things to be done-exchanging currency, beginning to pack, signing forms, but the waters of my life are still basically undisturbed.

I know that in three weeks, with a few days before I leave, the world will launch into hyper-speed and all this slowly passing time will evaporate, replaced by hours and days where you feel cheated a few minutes here and there. I have come to see my time now as the calm before the storm, before the frenetic never-stopping rush that will be Buenos Aires.

besitos
-j

passive learning

Right now I am at home, waiting for this Argentina adventure to begin. I am bored, relaxing, learning. I am taking the time I have and trying to learn about things I haven't had the time to really learn about before, music, language, cultural quirks. This is all well and good but it is passive learning.

I can't wait to be in Buenos Aires and be knee deep in active learning. While it's more difficult and messy it's what I somehow keep gravitating toward.

besitos
-j

mi primer entrada

This blog will document the next seven months of my life, six of which will be spent in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am terrified, thrilled, excited and impatient to begin the next adventure of my life. I am ready to accept the unexpected, unplanned for and undesired because I know that these are what often lead to the best, most wonderful and incredible experiences.

Estoy muy emocionada para este adventura, or something like that.

besitos
-j