Today it has finally hit me that I'm leaving pretty darn soon and if I want to do this going away thing right, I had better get started! I spent about 2 hours making a five minute slide show to share with my friends and family at my going away party coming up. The trickiest part for me was summing up a year of unique experiences in so little time...I just don't want to bore people and I think the length of "Clocks" by Coldplay with a Buena Vista Club interpretation is about as long as I can push it...I have also decided that I want to receive hand written letters from everyone that I care about, and rather than wait for them to come and possibly be disappointed, I am going to buy myself a notebook today and make it my yearbook of sorts and force people to sign it =) I also want to start getting my gifts together. Rather than buying or making stuff and lugging a whole bunch of stuff back to the US I would rather give some of my personal things away to my friends here, and so far it is working out amazing well! I feel good about leaving parts of me here in Chile and honestly don't need to bring back all the personal belongs I have accumulated here throughout the year. I am planning on using my time to catch up with people and tell them how much I enjoy their company. I just realized that I have a class to teach in about 40 minutes so it's time to hop in the shower and hopefully buy the notebook after that to start getting people signing it! Chau.
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