homesick

Today I really miss America. I saw Transamerica last night for free at a film festival and it made me really really want to be exploring the states. Not that I'm not still excited to be exploring Chile but I miss pumpkin pie and snow and there is so much i don't know about in the US. like the Badlands and Missoula Montana and Portland and Texas and all the other 35 states I've never been to. I'm also listening to Sufjan Stevens sing about Michigan and Illinois and I guess he always makes me think about winter and America and Bard. I'm kind of sad that it's never going to snow here and that there's no Thanksgiving or Halloween and that Christmas is going to be hot. It's funny to miss the most obviously American parts of my life, but those are what I miss right now. Plus it's Sunday and in Chile families always have a big lunch together on Sundays so all of Jorge and Marisol's friends and family are eating downstairs and I would really like to be having a big meal with my family right now. Plus it's a holiday weekend through Tuesday and Rafa, Erin, and Nate all went to Valparaiso and Jenna is sick so I am the only one here and don't even have anyone to cook for and pretend that I'm having family dinner with. But my birthday is soon and Jorge said I could have a party. I think it will be 80s themed. I'm sure I'd be the only one to do it if it was anything more than that. People here are totally obsessed with the 80s. Everyone has beautiful mullets and rattails. I even saw someone wearing the jacket from the Thriller music video. I think now I'm going to make some flyers saying I'm looking for roommates. I feel like an astronaut today.