So, I was planning on posting more while we were in Argentina, but we were quite busy during the trip. So, I’m thinking that I will spend some time posting about different things about the trip. So, to start the series of posts, I am going to start by answering the question that everyone has been asking – “so, how was it???” I think most would expect us to say something like “it was amazing!” or “it was incredible!” While both of those are very accurate, I think that it was very different than we all expected.
To begin, this trip wasn’t just a little venture trip down to South America for the fun of exploration. To us this was a trip to see the country where we might spend the rest of our lives. David, the missionary who we went with, tried to make sure that we were able to see what it is like to live there. This meant that we shopped for food and supplies ourselves. We cooked our own meals. We did most of things that we would do if we were living there instead of having everything done for us. Besides this, there were many other things that we were trying to absorb like the cost of living, cost of food, cost of gas, culture differences, language differences, and other factors of life that would be very different for us. To say the least it was mostly a very emotional trip than anything. I wouldn’t say that this means that we were ready to come back to the USA though. Although it is good to be back to be able to think about everything we saw. Now we are excited to head to Buenos Aires (BA) in two months from now.
There will be more next time…
Chau,
Josué
