...for the crowded streets of Buenos Aires. Before last week-end, the trip has been a distant thought for me. I don't know if it's the sensory deprivation of the self-imposed Zen retreat, but it's creeping up my sub-conscious. I am very excited, but also a little anxious. For two weeks, I will do a lot of things I had never done during the last twenty-seven years. Notably taking an international flight, leaving the country and clashing with a culture I know nothing about.
How exhilarating!
I feel that my world has been pretty small so far. My knowledge (which I am way too comfortable with) has been constantly mediated through television, internet, books or whatever. Like I have been looking through a small and dirty windowpane. Now, I'm about to go on the other side and see that it's like. I'm not sure what to expect, but I expect it to change my life somehow.
A small or a little change, but I expect it to change me as a person. Are my expectations too high? I'm not going there to see landscapes at take pictures. I'm going there to see and feel Argentina, to live and understand another culture. Yeah I'll bum around a bit and check stuff out, but I'm going there to look at the world from a different perspective. I think Josie has the same intentions so the trip should be fun and intense.
My comfort zone has never been so uncomfortable.
Duuuuude, If you can buy cigars over there for me, do so i'll pay you back plus tip!!!! It aint cuba but it'll do!
ReplyDeleteI'll miss you, brother. Have a good flight and take care.
I'll see what I can do. I heard there are a lot of things over there so if I find cigars at an affordable price, I'll stop by, promise.
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