Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Nervous to be back

I apologize to everyone who I have been with since I got back that has asked about Argentina. I don't know what to tell you. Everyone wants to know my favorite part, the adventures I had, what my internship was like, and so on. And I have nothing to say still. I knew I wouldn't and I do not.

Here is the truth. I was just living there for three months. I didn't have huge adventures or do anything crazy. I didn't get a whole lot from my internship. I didn't have a favorite part. I enjoyed myself and lived like someone else for a summer. How do I explain this, without making it boring and miserable and brief? Because my description cannot be brief. People expect five minute stories about the things I did, I need to wow them with my South American journeys, I need to make this epic for them.

Here's my plan: brainstorm two good stories to tell. Sea Salt and the action at La Boca.

And say this: It was an experience I needed. I found my passion for planet earth, was able to live in someone else's shoes, and speak Spanish the whole time. I don't have concrete lessons to give you, it will have to suffice to say that I grew.

On my internship: I didn't do anything journalistic at all. I did some editing and studied the art of event highlights videos. More importantly, at Greenpeace I learned that for all of the problems there are we can actually do something. Before this I had always felt the worlds problems were beyond fixing, people just don't care enough. But now I see that they can care, if they know, and then we can do something. I feel like I'm being very idealistic sometimes when I talk like that, so I still have that hopeless part of me apparently. Yet I have the desire to make changes now. I am starting to see things differently I think.

Is that sufficient?
Too vague.
Perfect.