Welcome to the home where I will record most of my time spent in Latin America for the coming semester. I haven't actually left yet (about 30 hours left in the United States), but I figured it wouldn't hurt to go ahead and get started. My bag has yet to be packed, with all of my stuff sitting in the middle of my floor, and I doubt all of it is going to fit into one dufflebag. But how am I supposed to know how to pack for four months of my life? Not to mention I'll be in two differing climates (the cooler highlands in Guatemala wheres high temperatures hover around 60 degrees, and then 80s in El Salvador and Nicaragua). It's unusual imagining my everyday clothes and personal items in such a completely different culture... Here, I blend into in the heterogeneous American culture; just a typical white, educated, somewhat-alternative girl. I have no idea how I'm going to react to being so easily recognized as American, and in turn, how that's going to affect my return to the United States after the trip. There are so many things I can't fathom at the moment (most namely the language barrier), but I've decided that it's nothing I can come up with out of thin air. So for the remainder of my time at home, I'm going about my daily life until I sit down on that plane headed south. I apologize if this post doesn't have much to it, but I thought it would be interesting to journal some of my thoughts before I actually begin on this one-of-a-kind journey.
I'll write again via Guatemala!!
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