19/20 Feb

My blogs getting depressingly shorter as my time runs out. I am not writing much because i´m doing so little and yet so much it´s just so familiar now and comfortable that I can´t fathom it being worth reporting. It´s amazing being back here and horrifying to think I am leaving it for I don´t know how long...Fifteen months feel like a year and the time I've spent here has been so amazing and well, the people I have come to know and love as if forever and blood. I keep saying I feel like I´m drunk...dancing is fine or rather keeping busy but every now and then when I close my eyes or rather the reality of how much change is going to take place in the next few days it´s all too much and I feel dizzy. The other bizarre aspect to this change is that unlike when I came I am fully aware of both what I´m leaving behind and what I am going back to. And I know I have already said it but it is time for me to leave or to go back to NZ -whether permanently.....I just don´t know.
Being Monday there was many a farewell said the day before as friends had to get back to the city for work. I spent the morning loitering and staring at my suitcases. Lasagna again for lunch(soooo good) In the afternoon I gathered again with the girls to drink mate and load photos.....will miss the sunshine and heat! With a family farewelll on the cards con bbq and the bugs of Areco making the most my soon to be gone flesh we headed over but not without a big fuss over my foot. Yes , at this point my dear left foot had starting swelling and hurting without me even touching it. The family between their yelling and bickering and laughing and preparing dinner for 40 rather than 8 were exactly that and are that FAMILY. More toasts...BASTA...and at the end of dinner me and the Mamu returned home for some left over´malva pudding` and charlas(chats).
The next morning we went to the doctor...and nothing out of the ordinary and far from being normal old me has TENDONITUS in her foot. Oh yes people....caused by scampering around the ever-undulatingly-bane of my life topography of Brazil for some two months in jandals......I have Tendonitus...on the bright side it is in no way related to bad circulation as feared or is in common in my family, and I don´t have to amputate...jaja hey always with the worst case scenario...
Yeah so my pretty little jandals and I are having to see a great deal less of each other and the swelling is caused by liquid which CAN get infected. Fourteen hours of flying ahead of me - can´t wait!!! My last actual night in Argentina was spent with all the women who had somehow been a part of my life and empandas and ice cream...food farewells god bless them!
More or less this has been my last few days I know iI´m leaving stuff out but without the Bean and the amount of stuff going on internally and externally "I canna do i' cap'n."
Alright so flying tomorrow........................