Getting Ready to Leave

Ok, so a month home is not even enough time to get ready for a trip to South America, especially when I have not been many places outside of America. I am partly making this post for the viewing of others and I am partly making this post for myself to remember the trouble I went through later into the semester when I want to quit and come home! haha! So to go to South America, Argentina in my case, one must get a series of shots. These shots, for me, included: Yellow Fever (OUCH OUCH OUCH), Typhoid, Hep. A, and TDAP. Ok, apart from these shots, I have had to learn how to shove my life for four months into two bags. Not that great! On top of having to get the shots, I got to be sick for two weeks straight after recieving the shots because of allergic reactions and normal reactions to the shots. The main reaction being the flu like symptoms 10 days after recieving the Yellow Fever shot!!

I post these negatives to warn people that the application proccess is nothing to complain about versus everything else that should be done in order to study abroad. But there are positives, like the great roommate I am already talking to that will be staying with me in my homestay, or the fact that I get to escape the worries of the Wofford bubble for a semester. I also get to spend my 21st birthday in Buenos Aires!!

But everything is completed now, and, alas, I leave in only five days. Five short days of enjoying sweet tea and my family. Five short days to say my goodbyes for four long months. Four months that I will have to learn another language in order to survive and get along with new, interesting people. Four months that I will go through a roller coaster of emotions (as per the W-curve- I learned this in my interim :) ). But every moment so far and in the future are going to be memories made for a lifetime!!