back and forth

1 more night in buenos aires for awhile. is this really my life, to come here every couple of months from my home in santiago? is my home really in santiago right now, complete with job, apt, boyfriend, friends, and routine?

it doesn't feel real sometimes. i'm all over the place, working in a position beyond my years of experience, working and living with people from all over the world, living in another language, working in another language, traveling always, resting sometimes, enjoying everything.

though i've become so comfortable that sometimes i don't know what to say here... or maybe just busy. maybe the comfort is in that i'm never quite comfortable. or that i just never stop. or that now i recognize where my culture has come and gone into my life here.

so to be content is not to be content or comfortable - the challenge is always calling.

saturday night

this was a culture/physical shock for me when i first arrived here. in the u.s., clubs close at 2 am - in santiago, you might not go out until 2 am and come home at 4:30, 5, 6, etc.

by now i'm used to it i guess. i never realized it, but i just came to expect it. it's 11:30 on saturday night and i'm sitting in my living room as my boyfriend takes a nap in the other room. i'd go lay down too but i'm afraid of falling asleep myself - this happened last night, ha ha :)

he found an apartment today - we walked from santiago centro and plaza de armas to the mercado central and back - we watched a chilean movie - we ate once :) it was a full day for sure and it felt amazing to spend a day like that again with him, it'd been awhile. and now comes the point when we should have gone out 2 hours ago and yet we're waiting - that's how it goes here.

well, live, learn, and adapt - talk like a chilean, eat like a chilean, go out like a chilean - that's what stretches us, to be able to do it and not think twice, to be comfortable with something so foreign. see it, understand it, do it.

thankful for the little things, completely content in mind, body, spirit - that's where i am now :)

i am truly truly lucky.