Chilean Family

My Chilean Family

Yesterday I found out my Chilean family. Here's the discription the school (Pontífica Universidad Católica de Valparaíso PUCV) gave me of my family.

María vive junto a su esposo y a sus 4 hijos en una casa grande en un sector residencial de Viña del Mar llamado Recreo. Son una familia muy católica que participa de actividades en la Iglesia. Su esposo se llama Eduardo González Figueroa y ambos son Ingenieros. Sus hijos son Isabel de 12 años, Ernesto de 10 años, David de 10 años y Andrea de 6 años. Ernesto y David son gemelos. 

I'm pretty excited. I have already sent the mom an e-mail and she sounds excited for me to come. She also sent some pictures of the family. Check them out!

23 day in counting...

One more week in Long Beach. In less than 24 hours I will be starting finals, moving out if the 629 Park house, and moving back to Rancho Cucamonga. It feels amazing to know that I'm going to be leaving Long Beach soon. It is also a great feeling to know I will soon be living back with my Mom, Dad, and siblings in the house I have spent most of my life growing up in before I travel to a foreign and strange new land. 

I am definitely going to miss all of my roommates Tyler, Jesse, Donny, Jorge, and Dylan plus extended family roommates Conner and Muscles, also Jen, Jessica, my blood sisters and brother, Mom, Dad and many others. I'm sad, nervous, and excited to leave (jan. 6th) all at the same time. I know this experience is going to be life changing and as some hinted life altering. I know I will not change as far as my morals and long term goals go but if anything I will come back with a new appreciation of culture and a better understanding of communicating in different environments amongst people from a variety of backgrounds. At the same time my family and friends will be growing up and learning new life truths here while I'm away and before long I will be back in Long Beach to finish my final two semesters.

Tonight gave me a little taste of how much I will be missed while I'll be studying abroad. At Chris' tonight a few people brought up my soon to be departure and as soon as I got to Conner's friend Alex's birthday extravaganza more people did not fail to remind me of my soon to be departure to Chile. I do not want to sound center-of-attention like but it does feel good to know that people will miss my presence while I'm gone and at the same time acknowledge my soon to be embarkation without having to be reminded.

So, on a happier note before I go I plan to finish out the semester strong, do well on my finals, and spend time with those I care about most during this holiday season. Happy Holidays everyone, hope to see all or most of you before the time comes to leave.

Love,

Bobby