kerewin's whine cellar

07 Septiembre 2002

I have just become one of those annoying people on the flight that whips out their laptop during the journey, I love it! So just a few notes before I forget everything to write about:

Together in Posadas, Jesuit ruins, Horacio Quiroga, campo, rocks…….

Party, last day shopping gifts for everyone from Teresa, getting up early, alarm clock, POR FIN in Buenos Aires, sad that all we did on the first day was shop at a mall and sleep, then go out to eat.

Mar Del Plata, Gaston, Jorgelina, Cici, sweater, long car ride, singing, the hotel, parents of Jorgelina, Chinese food, bath, then the beach, the ocean, the sea lions, water, cold, lunch with Gaston’s parents, another long car ride, hotel, locked out, checking out, room service.

Mendoza, flight, hotel, plazas, weather, first night out, walking, city tour, then dinner at that little divey thing on the walkway, early morning altas montañas, brits, snow, sunburn, incan bridge, easternmost point in Argentina, tired, crash, then our lazy wine event, taxi, 12 bottles, san felipe, Norton, rain, nice dinner at facundo, the man who owns the hotel, coffee in the café downstairs, tostadas, crack of dawn flight. Breaking Heather’s luggage.

Buenos Aires again, full day, meet Jorgelina and leave our luggage with her, met her coworkers, taxi drivers, luggage, the LA BOCA, pictures, shopping, abasto, glasses, leather purse, café, trying to get money, recoleta, cemetery, eva peron, the brits again, cats, restaurant, Leonardo the txi driver and out whirwind tour of Buenos Aires, la boca again, blowing all of our money in about 3 seconds flat, chess set, then back to Jorgelina’s work, taxi driver from that morning is there, heavy bags, airport, moving stuff around, Pablo, wine, overloaded bags, long flight, not much sleep. My Big Fat Greek Wedding, About a Boy, water on the lap, then Miami Chicago, Chicago Seattle, Divine secrets of the yaya sisterhood.

We are some 3 hours away from home and I have been gone just over 11 weeks, why does everything feel so normal? Will I feel any sort of culture shock? Very happy and surprised to be fluent but when will I get to use my language skills, am I really going to find a job using Spanish? What will it be like to sleep with another person after 11 weeks. Pretty much every bed I slept in for the entire trip was a twin so how will that go? I can’t wait to see Kevin, I want to open my bags and show him everything the second we get off. I have to remember to call Teresa when we get home, then a shower then a good long nap.

In some ways these 11 weeks have been a separate life with my other life continuing on that other continent, maybe it was some way of coping with loneliness, or a way of going on with your life, I have always thought, though, that it would be great to have 2 or 3 lives, you could live in different cities, have different jobs, live life in all the different directions that you want.

So now maybe we have a new Karri, or whatever, I am a little afraid of when people tell me that,”I will be whole new person, my whole outlook is going to change.” What if it doesn’t? I don’t feel so different from my old self right now……..

I wonder how long it will take before we have our first bickering, our first fight. I can’t believe that our first anniversary is coming up so soon, and I also get a laugh when I tell people we have been married such a short time yet spent the summer apart.

What will come of me? I guess it is time to find out.

Posted by kerewin at September 7, 2002 08:02 PM