Oops.

Well guys, clearly I haven't proven extremely regular with the blog thing - I've started a couple posts here and there, on various things, but things here have been a little bit crazy after the semester finally warmed up and so it's been a little bit difficult to just take some time and write a post.

It's been about four and a half months now that I've been down here, and although when I left the States in January I thought that the beginning - the first month or so - would be the most difficult, I think that this title belongs to the period I'm going through now. It's reached the point now where the spring semesters are over in the States, and a lot of friends are home for the summers now, doing various combinations of work and enjoying themselves, and while it would be ridiculous to complain about how I'm missing out on just hanging out, making trips to the beach, etc, that is the part of home that I tend to miss the most. It would appear that the real homesickness has finally set in.

But - it's a complicated feeling. I miss the States and my people there, while at the same time knowing that I am in no way ready to think about leaving here yet. The people that I've met here have made this easily one of the greatest experiences of my life, and I am not even close to prepared for that to be over. It's difficult to think that starting in just a couple weeks, I'll begin to be separated from the people that have been a fairly constant part of my life since February. Knowing that this is true makes us want to go out and celebrate every day we have left in Buenos Aires, and really seize the last of the time that we have, but this too is frustrating, because now is the time when the semester is coming to an end, and most of us are too swamped with work to be able to go out without at the very least feeling guilty about spending the time doing something other than studying. I even feel guilty about working on this post instead of studying.

So, because of the fact that I haven't written in a while, and how because of this, this blog is missing out on a lot of details/opinions of my experiences here, the next few entries are going to be relatively short ones on some of the things about Argentina that are different from home, whether they be things that I'm going to miss or just simple observations. Some of them will be the ones that I've started but not finished in the last month or so, and then maybe some new ones as well. Sorry for the long delay.