This is the end

"This is the end, beautiful friend 
This is the end, my only friend, the end..." 

      It is probably the last post that I will write in this trip and a mixture of feeling come to me. I imagine the next week waking up alone in my department, preparing my breakfast and going to the university for the first class in the year. Welcome again to the routine. 
Well, I will come back to Tucumán, but this time the return won't be like others. I come back to Argentina thinking in a different way and I say this because I understood many things:
   - Don't judge a person for his nationality: Coming to the USA not only meant to fulfill a dream that I always had, this trip made me understand that you shouldn't confuse a country and a person of that country. If a country makes an action doesn't mean that all the population is agree with this action. You don't have to think that everybody think in the same way, they are just persons and they have their opinions, their feeling and their way to see the life, they can disagree with the government and that is why they can choose who will represent them (democracy). 
   - Nothing is perfect: Before this trip I thought that USA was almost perfect,with all the people living a happy life. But even here people have a lot of problems and they have to work hard to reach a good standard of life. Also you can see homeless in Austin like in my city in Argentina. Don't misunderstand me, the USA is a great country, I'm just saying that it isn't perfect. 
   -Texan pride: Texan flags everywhere! even more than flags of the USA, "don't mess with Texas", "keep Austin weird", I think that people here feel more texan than american, that is amazing, and help me understand that I am proud of being Argentinean. I understood that my country is great too, is not the most powerful but it is the most beautiful, and people there are very kind, that's why I love my country.

But this scholarship also tough my a lot of things about life, I understood the importance of study but most important, I understood that study is not the unique thing you have to do while you are at the university, practice a sport, go out with friends, take risks, have mistakes sometimes, and travel a lot, because travel will open your mind and will answer lot of questions that you can't search in a book. Travelling to another country will allow you to adapt to new environments and expands you horizons because it puts you in contact with different lifestyles and social and family values than your own. That's why travel is considered an important investment that young people must take (obviously, together with education).




writing this post I start to wander why it is the last one, I know the answer but I refuse to think that this program is coming to the end. Five month ago I would never thought about spend my vacations in a city as beautiful as Austin, sharing this program with other twenty four crazy Argentinians... but here I am, happier than never before, I feel I am in a dream and I don't want to wake up.

I finish this post saying thank you to Rachelle, Katie and all the group. This was the best trip I have ever done before and I am very happy for having shared with y'all. I am not very expressive, but I need to say something: Los quiero :)

It's time to say good bye, but I am sure that we will meet together again.
See you soon friends, I promise that!!!