Whoa

I just realized that I missed my two-month mark of being in Chile, which was just a few days ago. Definitely an exciting feeling. I am enjoying my time here, my family is awesome and classes aren't too horrible (sometimes even pointless), but at the same time I am looking forward to the day that I get to come home to my friends and family. There are some difficulties that I have experienced here, but nothing that I can't handle. The next three weeks are going to be relatively quiet and hopefully I can get ahead on my studies during that time because once they go by, I have a feeling that everything else will start coming pretty quick as that starts the sequence of weekend trips and family visits.

Between October seventh and December 11th when I return to Minnesota I only have two free weekends where I will get to laze around the house and play catch-up with anything that has gone by the wayside. October brings two weekend trips, one to Patagonia and the other to Pucón - both in the southern portion of the country. Then my final month and a half brings my loving family and amazing boyfriend for a week during which I have two final papers due and then two final weekend trips first to Machu Picchu at the beginning of November and then to Rio, Brazil at the beginning of December. So I guess that even though I'm not happy with my idle time right now, I should be taking advantage of it since I won't have the chance again later.

I'm hoping that just because the next two and a half weeks have nothing exciting going on that I'll still have things of interest to say in the tedium. If anything, I can try and post more pictures since I haven't really been doing a great job at that for you non-facebook users...