Dear Friends, Family, Casual acquaintances, and Strangers who might be reading this, In 5 days I am taking a 13-hour flight to Buenos Aires, Argentina by myself. I'll be there for three months doing volunteer work with LIFE Argentina, an organization that works with children in socially marginalized and impoverished areas of Buenos Aires. I've never traveled alone before. I've never been to South America before. I've never been out of the country for more than two weeks at a time, and I've certainly never worked in a Spanish-speaking country before. It's a lot of firsts for me, but I'm feeling beyond ready for this experience and I can't wait to completely immerse myself in something totally different from everything I am used to. I have a lot of goals for the trip, and I thought
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