Argentina Awaits…

Saturday is getting closer and closer, and I can hardly contain how I’m feeling. Time has flown by, the semester is over, and we will be departing soon. Where has the time gone? What I’m most excited for is the teaching. We will be teaching primary school students who...

Argentina 2011 Count Down

Finals are finally over and we are in the home stretch of our trip.  We leave Saturday! Two more days  I am currently getting my things together, I can’t wait ! –Kristina Brockner

Anticipating Argentina

It still has not hit me that we are going to Argentina on Saturday. I am sure it will not hit me until I am standing in the airport in Buenos Aires staring out the window into a new country.  I am very excited but still a little nervous. The only thing I am nervous...

In less than 120 hours now…

. . . I will be embarking on my first trip outside of the U.S. There really is not just one word I can use to describe my thoughts or feelings. Everything is sort of jumbled together. Excitement, nervousness, anxiousness. I’m restless. It’s only Monday evening and it...

It’s starting to sink in…

Four days left. Cuatro días. It feels so surreal. I can hardly believe it. I have always thought of this trip as being in the distant future.  “Not until summer,” I would tell myself. “I still have time.” But summer is here! The past few nights have been almost...