I'm anxious about the coming weeks. The run off is the first Sunday of November. If the weeks preceding the first round are any indication of what is to come, the next month or so won't be pretty.
This was a somewhat strange year. Not as much work as last year, more trips out of Congo, less fieldwork. I started the PhD but it doesn't feel real yet, since I haven't been to Leuven since I was admitted and I don't have a student ID (it sounds silly, but I'd like to have an ID so that it feels real and I can get student discounts, too).
After coming to terms with the idea of staying here for another two years, life suddenly became simpler. We got furniture and plants, so the apartment finally feels like a home. I can remember how I felt before, counting the days until the next trip out. Now it isn't so bad. I don't mind it as much, and I don't count the days. Still, I feel my mind is often elsewhere. I miss Guate a lot.
I guess I am somewhere over the Atlantic right now. Hovering. I feel a bit on hold.
March 2007, after the bullets
July 2007 with furniture and plants
7 comments:
Hello Dear Sister,
Now that i know a little bit your country i understand you much better... i feel a kind of nostalgy about it though it is not my country.. which makes a difference. I feel like i left a part of my hart over the atlantic (which i didn't feel when leaving , so don't think i leave a part of my heart in every country I visit ;-) ).
Hermana, happy to know we now share Guatemalan nostalgia. You know my master plan is to get all my loved ones to love Guate, too :)
I wanted to say that i didn't feel the same when leaving Chile... which I liked very much but not the same way ;-)
Your master plan will be a success Alejita!
:))
I am very happy you are not scattering your heart around Latin America :) I support all traveling in the continent, but Guate is Guate.
hugs
This reminds of that song... "cuando salí de Cuba..." But in this case is Guatemala... :-)
This could be the way to start a conspiracy (I sometimes use the non existent word "conspiration") to have the world love Guatemala.
you are in Guatemala just your body is in Congo...
good luck and have a nice weekend.
when I feel anger I eat chocolate and If Im really sad I eat the bitter one...buh !
bye,bye
Ale, I am coming from (je viens de... :-)) sending you a message with a link to the plane crash in Kin. If you accept this comment or reply to it, it would mean a lot, just to be sure you are OK...
And happy belated birthday!
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