I am posting something decidedly not-Christmasy today, lest I run out of interesting Christmas topics too soon and spend December 23rd writing about ants or lizards or something again. Also, I´ve been meaning to post about Ana for a while, so here we go.
This is a picture with Ana. She is my friend, and a cool kid. This particular foto is us being impressed with a pineapple-upside-down cake containing enough gluten to entirely destroy her.
I met Ana during my time at Conserve School, and we became pretty good friends. She lives on the East Coast and has a tendency to go gallavanting on international adventures, so we didn´t get to see each other during the summer (check the blog to read what she was up to). However, during the past four months she has become one of my chief emotional supports, and possibly the person who understands what this is like more than anyone. Why is this? Ana is living in Peru.
The reason for her being there is REALLY cool. She is not an exchange student, but is volunteering in a small village, living near a dorm where middle-school-age indigenous girls who live too far away from school to travel every day, come to live and study during the week. She explains all of it much better here. You should seriously read that whole page- it´s really good.
The challenges we have and things we enjoy doing are really different day-to-day. Our lives aren´t really similar at all (besides the Spanish, or Costellano for her), but somehow after talking I feel like she knows exactly what I´m going through. I´m really blessed to have that.
So, in conclusion: Ana Komar is my friend. Today is December 6th. Tomorrow I think I will post about Christmas trees. Happy Tuesday!
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