An update

Its Monday, 6:30 Im sitting in Cafe Teatro listening to Regina Spektor and drinking actual good coffee. I have a full journal, a spinning head, and a happy feeling. We got back from Buenos Aires on Friday and it was the most incredible two weeks. I went back to Pergamino to visit with my old host family.. the catalyst of so many things that have happened in my life thus far. Those two days solidified so many values, so many memories, so many feelings. Some things never change. Some do, but relationships... the true ones we make when we can openly share our lives only grow. It was amazing to be back.
I also figured out my independent study project for the month of May. Off to Buenos Aires, to study the Universidad Popular de Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo. We met with a 92 year old woman who has been protesting the disappearance and murder of her son for 30 years. Little women in white headscarves who have created a bonafide social movement. These agents of change who have shaped and accomplished so much in the face of a dictator. Who endured and endured even as their founders were abducted and killed by their very own government, by their very own people. Women who rally for the human rights of all. Who still, after 30 years go every Thursday to march in the center of Buenos Aires. Determined not to fade away... Beautiful women.
Tomorrow, actually in 12 hours I leave for Temuco, to live and learn about the indigenous Mapuche community in the South of Chile. This time tomorrow who knows what I will be doing, seeing, speaking! Ill be back in a week surely with many things to write to you all about.
I got letters from you wonderful people today. Thank you for giving me something (more than something) to miss. And miss you I do. But oh when we meet, when we meet again...
Thank you for your airmail!