I know I’m super late with this goodbye post. The truth is I didn’t want to face the truth that my time in Buenos Aires is over 🙁 It’s been such as incredible experience and I think it’s time to reflect on all the great experiences and some of the challenges I faced.
Also time to look at that letter I sent to my future self!
Dear Future Me,
Well, you’ve come to the end of you time in Argentina. By now I’m sure it feels like you’ve found a place for yourself. I hope that you’ve become even more comfortable in this city. Hopefully you’ve made some meaningful friendships and connections. It’s been a long journey I know. But I hope by now you realise how lucky you are to have been able to study there. I really hope you’ve enjoyed every single moment left and you can use the public transport better! With all that being said, don’t cry because it’s over, smile because you got to experience it in the first place.
Love,
Anneliese
I love Argentina so much. I’ve found a second home in this city, Buenos Aires. I became more comfortable using the subte but that bus system…I think I’d need to stay longer to figure it out. It’s still hard to know when to get out and where the bus stops are!
I love the fact that there is always something to do in this city. Whether it be a free festival like the Open Folk Festival I went to in Bosques de Palermo, or an open air market on the weekends. The city is full of life and I am going to miss it. The nightlife too! It’s going to be really weird getting accustomed staying out earlier, I’ve been staying out till 5 most weekends! Its going to be an adjustment.
I hope I can keep in touch with all of the amazing people that I met here. Some of them I know I will meet up with again sometime. It’s been so fun going out with them and having awesome experiences with them. I’ll never forget them. Especially my girls! (They know who they are) I may not have made a huge group of friends or lots of local friends, but the ones I did make were quality and meaningful.
It was definitely an adjustment having to live in a house with a grandmother type figure. After living in the dorms, having the freedom to go places without telling anybody and not have to say when you’ll be back, it’s a bit difficult to get accustomed to telling your whereabouts. But on the whole, I really loved my homestay as I did not have many rules and could use the living room and the food was great!
Overall, my study abroad experience has taught me a lot about myself and what kind of life I would like to live. I visited places I never would have imagined (See post from El Calafate and Iguazu) and spent 3 months improving my Spanish skills. I definitely think I am, if not close to being fluent! I am so grateful and blessed. And as I say goodbye to that stage in my life, I know I’ll visit again someday or maybe even try to move there. Who knows what the future has in store for me!
So Don’t Cry For Me Argentina….I’ll be back again one day