The older you get the crazier is the feeling
of time flying by so fast. Weeks and months are passing by like minutes and
hours when you were younger – or when things were really exciting. Already two years
of studying in Maastricht are almost over and there hasn’t been a lot of time
for reflecting all the things that happened during those years. I’m richer of
so many relationships and experiences. It’s like I actually don’t want to leave
Maastricht, because right now life is good. But to move forward in life there
must be change and therefore a new adventure is lying ahead of me.
Chile, this long thin country in South
America, I made a presentation over in 8th grade. It’s home of all
climate zones of this world and almost half of its population is living in the
capital “Santiago de Chile”. Some called it “the Europe of Latin America”, the
more prude part of all of them but still a country with so much to offer. In
the end of July I’ll start my semester abroad there and figure how many of
those stereotypes are really representative of the country.
Such a big trip needs a lot of organization –
or well do I need that?! Or maybe even both…
…so some stuff is already organized like a new
passport, because mine was just valid until February 2017, kinda painful
vaccines and the application for the partner University in Santiago. BUT one
thing that’s actually really important I couldn’t organize yet à My VISA, the actually most
important thing for getting to go to Chile. Let’s say there is a way around the
Student VISA, but with the Student VISA it’s possible to get kind of a Student
ID which you cannot when traveling with a tourist VISA. But well maybe I need
to start getting used to not know stuff, to the feeling that some things are
not in my hand to be controlled which doesn’t mean they won’t work out. So many
things are popping up in my mind – like what if I’m completely lost because the
Spanish I had in school is like kinda useless in Chile, or what if I’m not able
to adjust to weird customs there and what if something goes wrong on my flight
there?
In the end I have no real answers to these
questions but the best to do right now is to get used to the feeling of the
unknown, to the feeling that most things in life come as they are whether you
prepared for it or not and actually there is not much you can do about it.
Enough procrastination for today. Let's get shit done for Statistics II - Yayy.
Muchos Besos,
Leonie
