This week has been jam-packed with papers, studying, finalizing travel plans, packing, doing errands, and taking finals. Last night we had our final banquet complete with sushi, diplomas, teacher/staff presents, superlatives, and Kev's video (sooo sick). Later that night almost everybody in the program went to Kika for one last clubbing experience of the semester and it was a blast. Somehow I got in way before the guys I came with and to top it off, i didn't have to pay...don't know how that happened.
All that craziness is dwarfed by the journey I'm about to embark on. I think im more nervous for this than I was for finals. Its not a bad kind of nervous, just an excited and anticipatory nervousness. Gaaaaah so pumped for this. Movies, books, pictures, and stories that have been accumulated over the years are now reeling through my head like a highlight reel. I'm about to go to places that i thought were merely wild dreams a couple years ago. When i applied to Pepperdine, i knew next to nothing about studying abroad, let alone Argentina. I had read books and seen movies on the adventures to be had on this continent, but as i said before, i thought id always only be a dreamer, not a doer of those things. Now those dreams are being realized.
BA has been great, but the main reason I came down to South America was for this next 6 weeks of crazy travels. I still can't believe the semester went by in the blink of an eye and now I'm approaching the cliff, working up the butterflies, and jumping into a free fall of unknown adventures. God is too good. This isn't real life. Prayers will be appreciated so that I can hopefully continue to be live this life 6 weeks from now.
Here's my rough itinerery (in case you wanted to follow me in your head throughout these next 6 weeks):
dec 15:fly to santiago (with mark travis)
dec 16:fly to easter
spend 9 days on easter island
dec 25:fly back to santiago
immediately start busing up to Cuzco- alone (over 50 hours on connecting buses; i am thankful for my ipod and kindle)
dec 28-31: get to machu picchu through a back door route and then do machu
jan1-4:bus down to lake titicaca and explore what it has in store
jan 5: get to La Paz
jan 5-9:fly into an amazon village and do an amazon adventure
jan 10-12:bus down thru the salt flats of bolivia to get to jujuy,argentina
jan 12:fly back to back
jan 14:fly down to calafate and meet mark and kevin
jan 15-22: roadtrip through torres del paine
jan 22: fly to ushuaia from calafate
jan 22-?: EFT with all of Pepperdine
It'll be funny looking back at this and seeing how it all plays out...no promises. I'll try to update my blog or fb every so often so that people will know that im still alive.
john 10:10
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