Coming Full Circle

A couple of days ago in Santiago, I was at a Lider (a supermarket chain in Chile), when the checkout lady asked me if I had a Lider Club Card. I couldn't understand what she was asking me, and had to have it repeated a few times, until finally, my friend Caro had to do the Chilean intervention thing and answer for me by saying, "No, she doesn't have a club card."

It only seemed fitting that after 6 months of being in Chile, in spite of feeling like my overall Spanish comprehension has improved tremendously, that the same question I couldn't understand on my first day in Chile I couldn't understand on my last night. :)

In a way, it was kind of this weird coming full circle moment for me (albeit a really embarrassing one!), and it made me realize that no matter how much I feel like things have changed - whether that be in my life, or just about me as a human being - there will always be things that remain the same.

I already really miss Chile a lot, and don't even know how to express these bittersweet emotions I am feeling right now because there are a million memories, tangents, ideas, conversations, and experiences in my head that I want to let out, and I just don't even know where to begin.

That, on top of the fact that I look like a hot mess, and should arreglar (fix) myself before I meet up with Alyssa in half an hour to welcome her to the Wonderful World of Study Abroad, albeit in the inferior (who should I judge, I have only been here for 12 hours) city of Buenos Aires.

Expect more blog entries to come with me being emo and expressing melodramatic sadness about not being in Chile anymore.

I know, I just can't wait to hear about it either.