I can't believe I'm leaving my main man, Otis. I still haven't packed and the gray, cloudy skies of my other true love, Seattle, are making me want to escape to somewhere much warmer--not Santiago in the winter. I've been emailing my new host family and they seem like very loving folks, " Kate, te esperamos con los brazos abierto y conoceras un lindo país con la hospitalidad latina," sounds good, no? My "dad," Miroslav (his family is Croatian-there is a large Eastern European population in Chile), has also offered words of peace to my mom and dad, "Muchos saludos a tus padres y le transmites que puedan quedarse absolutamente tranquilos cuidaremos a su hija como nuestra," pretty much meaning, "no worries real parents, stay calm, we'll take care of your one and only daughter as if she was our own." PRECIOUS!
So, the reason why I'm doing this blog is slightly selfish because I know that I'm not very good at staying in touch with individuals and communicating as much as I should. Also, I'm bad at keeping a journal so I'm hoping these blog entries will keep me slightly more focused. The title of the blog is part of my address in Santiago. Vitacura is apparently one of the nicest neighborhoods in Santiago (every time I tell someone who knows the area they say "oo-la-la!") so I'm guessing I'll at least have access to internet somewhere close by but maybe not in the house.
It still doesn't seem real that I'm actually leaving. My nerves have been slightly calmed due to the fact that I met a girl my age the other night at a party who will be on my same flight, doing a similar program through Middlebury, and we share countless mutual friends--thank you Seattle for being such a small world. I will miss the gray skies and rain, the clean air and green trees, but seriously looking forward to feeling protected by the greatness of those MASSIVE Andes mountains that will be surrounding me for five months.
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