The Anticipation

T-minus one week.

Only one week until I leave the frigid North and head to the warm South.

I have yet to travel anywhere in South America so I'm pretty stoked. Chile is so rich in it's culture and traditions. From the little research I had done in Spanish class last semester, I can tell that this will be an amazing experience.

I speak a little bit of Spanish, however, grammatically it's probably not correct but I try! I went to Nicaragua twice when I was a Junior and Senior in high school for mission trips and back then I really wasn't sure how I was going to communicate. However, when you are immersed in that culture, you really pick up ways of how to get your point across and how to understand what others are asking you. Now, after taking three semesters of Spanish, I feel as though I will be able to communicate fairly decently but I'm excited to learn more.

For the last four years of my life, I have been blessed with opportunities to travel around the world. For some reason, I've never been too nervous to go anywhere. When asked "Are you nervous?" or something along those lines, I usually respond with "No. Not really."
I don't know. I really don't get too nervous about traveling or anything like that. If there is a storm supposedly coming or if I'm not sure what to pack or anything in-between, I usually just roll with it and am not too worried. (Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing but I'm just going to go with it)

Regarding the videos we watched on Chilean body language and slang, they were pretty interesting. I like how Chilean's seem to talk with their hands and body movements because when I talk or am trying to explain something I always always ALWAYS talk with my hands. Some of the slang words that are used are kind of similar to the slang that we use in America. I always find it interesting when there are connections between languages that people don't always notice at first.