Today I woke up early to go to the Tufts office to plan out my trip to Peru with Megan and Eric. It's going to be so amazing! We are basically traveling on buses and trains all the way along the coast of the country from the North to the South over two weeks, with cool stops along the way. I can't wait! We'll be playing some of it by ear, so chances are our plans might change over time, but whatever we end up doing will be a great adventure for sure!
After trip planning I met up with Paige and Thomas from my spanish class to take a tour around the city and take pictures of specific places to present in class. It turns out that the area we were assigned included La Vega! It was sooo strange to go back during the day and see it all full of life. I bought a delicious pomegranate in the market and ate it along the journey. Yum.
I attempted to find a guitar again today, but failed. Shall try again tomorrow. My trip to the poblacion La Victoria was cancelled for tomorrow (story of this week!) so I have a little free time. Good thing, since I have a bunch of homework to do too. AND Rebecca Edelberg is coming on Sunday!!!!!!! I can't wait! We'll be going to Valparaiso on a tour with the Tufts group all day, which should be really fun, but I'm mostly just thrilled to see her! I remember planning her visit so long ago- I can't believe she's coming so soon.
(Estacion Mapocho, an old train station)
I had a big moment today. I was walking past an art gallery in this enormous old train station, and saw these gorgeous, huge paintings of landscapes in brilliant colors. I felt really regretful that I hadn't been able to paint in a long time. Then it suddenly dawned on me that I probably have the large majority of my life ahead of me. That's a very long time. If I felt like it, I could choose to spend years in Italy painting and working in a pastry shop. Then I could spend years doing some other crazy thing that I decide I love. Just think about all the things you can do in a lifetime! It's so exciting!
Molly will you PLEASE live in Spain with me! We can have little nice jobs in bookstores or bakeries and go paint together and eat in parks and play banjo and guitar and piano and sing and borrow each other's shoes.
ResponderEliminarI was just thinking about that on the bus today! So much that it was on my mental list of things I wanted to remember to talk to you about on skype! I was thinking about what year we could go and everything! I was also trying to decide whether it should be Italy though, so that we would both be totally clueless about the language at the same time and could learn together. But I would still be totalllly down for Spain. Basically anywhere where we could have some fun simple job and meet new people and paint and eat in parks and play music and borrow each other's shoes. I bought some nice ones today : )
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