Today, it's been exactly a month since I left India to Argentina. A little hard to believe. The goodbye was not easy but not as hard as I expected, I was pretty excited about leaving! But the journey? I honestly hated it and I'm not being negative! You'd understand if you were to travel 4 hours to Dubai, then a 9 hour transit and then a 19 hour flight to Rio de Janeiro, 1 hour transit and then an hour flight to Buenos Aires, a bus from BA to Rosario. I reached at about 3 AM where I met a few AFS volunteers.
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| Rio de Janeiro |
The first week was pretty hard, getting acclimatized from the spicy Indian food to completely bland omelette wasn't easy. Going from 30 something Celsius to 3 celcius definitely isn't easy on your body. I guess that's when I really starting missing home. All those late night conversations with friends and having your best friend always next to you was hard to let go. But my host mother is so extremely childish and it's nice having a young family compared to back home! My 2 year old brother has now come up with an adorable nick name for me "Peebee". Next was my first day of school, I waited at the head office while 2 girls came to accompany me to my class. I was really surprised when I saw "Bienvenida Pallavi" charts everywhere and on the class door. I waited for a bit and then went in, and there was the whole class screaming. It was really overwhelming because I expected none of this, in India we just stare at the exchange student and hardly make conversation especially if there's a language barrier. And then there were 50 something people introducing themselves to me and honestly I don't remember any of their names because they're pretty hard to pronounce. And the introduction comes with a peck on the cheek, which is way different from a wave back at India. The excitement continued for a looong time. And what's not love about that?
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| First day of school |
A week ago I went with a few friends including my english speaking one to the next city where my school is at to visit some places of historic significance. I felt pretty badass because we were dancing and having all this fun in the church. I also went to this world's 2nd widest river called Parana, also famous because Vasco Da Gama when searching for India found America thinking the Parana was an ocean. The nightlife is unbelievable over here, the partying goes on till about 7AM !
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| At Coyote! |
Yesterday I had orientation with the other AFSers, and I truly believe that what one exchange student goes through can only be understood by another. Anyway, today is just another lazy Sunday afternoon and I need my routine siesta. Thanks for reading (:
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