nothing prepares you for this...

So I finished the semester, well yeah let's just leave it at that, so I am done. Finite. Terminada..and other words..And am super excited to be heading off to Peru tonight with  a newly made friend Nicole who goes to notre dame! so close to home! yes we, or at least I hope, are going to be good friends for a long time. But that's not the point of this post..

So as the months turned into weeks and the weeks have now turned into the 23 days that I have left in Chile. I have officially started saying adios to all my nuevos amigos with hopes I will see them again. This feeling is really heard to explain. I mean you spend 6 months building relationships with people and with some you get really close and then you have to leave and go back to your own country. It completely sucks! I'm not going to lie, I don't want to go back to the states because of all these amazing people I have befriended down here, but I know most of them are going home, so if I would stay the year they  wouldn't be here anyways.

But on the other hand, besides leaving this emptiness in your chest, it kinda makes you feel cool to know that if you go to a country you have a friend there to visit and they can show you around and what not. So it's not all so bad. I am determined to visit all of my friends that I have made down here in their own cities and/or countries at some point in my life. And also having facebook and skype really help too. It's a lot easier to keep in contact with people now rather then when our parents were growing up and all they had was letter and stamps... who uses that anymore anyways?? jp I'm sure plenty of people do.

So I guess those are my thoughts on leaving.. I'll have to write about them later too seeing as I have 23 days left... so weird to think that it used to be 5 months and 3 months.. but to be down to days is absurd.

Anyways, good luck to everyone who's traveling! stay safe! have fun! and I hope to see you soon! well I guess i'll see a lot of my friends when I get back from Peru...It's just the beginning of the 'see ya later''s.

<3 Leslie