July has been a month of change. My first semester is done. The translation project I had been working on for Rotaract Paso Molino is completed, and well, my roommate told me that she and her boyfriend are pregnant. She told me as we were passing the internet modem through the door which separates our bedrooms. She told me before she told the other roommates. I felt honored. I didn’t know what to say. “We will marry,” she said. “It is common here, to marry very young, it’s just, I don’t know if I will finish my degree.” She and I have become friends over the last few weeks, over various home repair projects. We somehow realized we both wanted internet and now share it. A few days for me, a few days for her. She studies architecture and soon will be a mother. We also rearranged the living room. Our next project: fix our oven which leaks an unhealthy amount of gas.
In a few days I leave for Patagonia. It’s winter vacation here and Nicholas is visiting. Cross-country skiing and chocolate shops await us in Bariloche, as well as a reunion with some of my best friends from Brown. Because it’s cold down in Patagonia, today I bought sheep-skin inserts for my shoes. I paid $1.80 for them and have a feeling they will be worth it.
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July 17, 2008 at 6:01 pm
i love you, wow you have seen and done so much..i would love to have been with you for al of it..miss you sister take care
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