39 Daaaayyys...me falta poco tiempo

My brother sent me the picture on the left of our driveway. When I opened the email the first thing I said was, holy s***! I have seen it flood where it's a little questionable if I can get through there with my itty bitty Sunfire, but wow, never like that. I put the other because this is the most recent picture of me. While everyone in northeast Iowa is needing to construct an arc, here I am enjoying my free time during the strike in a very, very dry northern Chile. The picture was taken this past weekend at a Welcome Home party for a friend of friends. You will notice the very classy smoky element to the photo. It seems like everyone here smokes like South America has a tobacco shortage.

I have definitely been making the most of my free time since the strike has been going on. This past weekend was pretty crazy. To give you an idea of just how fun it was, I slept from 4 p.m. yesterday until 11:30 this morning. I'm not that sharp with numbers but I am going to say that's a good, almost 20 hours of some much needed Z's.

I have 39 days left in this country. I have to admit that I did make a countdown. I made it within the first month that I arrived. I can't deny that I am super excited to come home. I really miss everyone a lot more than I ever did in Spain. Sorry Mom and Dad, Spain was just too much fun, I didn't want to come home! It could have something to do with how close I have become with my parents in the past year, and even with my friends. But I know how incredibly blessed I am with the people I have in my life. They make up such an intricate part of my life, I'm missing everyone like caarazy!