Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Big Macs, sold out bus tickets, bathroom windows and early goodbyes

Hey all, so i was supposed to spend today relaxing in Montevideowith Ariel as a kinda last hurrah, but due to bus problems (all the buses were sold out for like the next week to get back to the city in Brasil where I fly out of to go to the north for the two week missions trip. All they had available was the very last seat in the bus that was to leave in just a few minutes after we finally made it to Montevideo. I helped Ariel find a hotel, grabbed a last meal with him at McDonald´s (my seventh country where I´ve eaten a Big Mac (US, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay). Then I went back to his hotel room to take a shower, with about 5 minutes before I had to leave I found myself locked in the bathroom as the door handle had broken and wouldn´t let me out, panic was setting in a bit before I made for the window that was maybe at most a foot tall and maybe two feet wide. It was pretty high too and I though there was no chance I´d make it through, but with the adreniline running I managed to jump up to it squeeze myself through and not hurt myself on the exit. I then got to the bus station for the 11 hour trip back to Brasil. I was sad to leave Ariel and Montevideo early and thus find myself currently wandering around Porto Alegre, Brasil trying to figure out what to do and killing time till I can get a hotel room. Yesterday I started the day in Buenos Aires, took a boat to Colonia, Uruguay which took about an hour. Spent the day there riding around in little mopeds which was maybe the coolest thing we did on our whole trip. Paid $15 to rent them for the day and explored the whole little city and found some trails in the woods which were really pretty. Just riding through the woods with the smell of pine trees, fresh air and no care in the world was just what I needed after two weeks of fun, but also craziness. It seemed nearly every day we woke up in a new place, someone would ask when we arrived at the city we were in and we rarely could remember when, sometimes i would say yesterday, when actually we had arrived that day. I had such a good time though with Ariel, we met a lot of cool people, and visited some beautiful and interesting places. It was nice to have a bit of home come here and now as I am left again by myself I can´t help but feel a bit sad. I still don´t know what I am doing with my life and feel like I am starting to get tired of not having one place to call home. I thank you all for your love and support. I love you all so very much and it means so much to me to know I have people that love and care for me. I will take off for Salvador, Bahia tomorrow morning to meet up with an American team there that will be on a missions trip there for two weeks. I will be helping them as a translator and working as part of the team.

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