Before departure... The overview

I am located right now in Aarhus, the second biggest city in Denmark, visiting a very good friend of mine, but soon departing for Copenhagen and further to Madrid where I will (possibly) catch the flight to Buenos Aires tomorrow evening. I will be arriving in Buenos Aires (the capital of Argentina :) in the Saturday morning where I will be picked up by Remis (rented car) that will drive me to Ritalina, girl that will host me in my first four days in Argentina. From there one I will meet up with a special person, that lives in Argentina, but originally comes from Slovenia. Her name is Elena and she will host me for two nights. It will be the first step towards my mission of this travel to Argentina; getting to know the Slovenians and Slovenian communities, their stories of moving to South America, their memories they keep from their childhood, while being in Slovenia, their decisions of going abroad for a better life or a run off that was caused by the war and other circumstances.

I started to search for contacts in August and until now I found quite some, that I will definitely visit and have a closer look upon. To list some: visiting a Slovenian school, Slovenian families, Slovenian communities / individuals and youth clubs, gatherings...

The other fact is that I will be finally one of the first ones from my closest family to go to Argentina, though it was a dream and consideration since ages of my father to travel there. We were many times joking who will be the first one exploring this country. Years ago I didn't actually think and understand that this is surely possible one day. And now I am at the edge to actually fulfil this dream.
The other thing is I am away of knowing the world around and things that happened in the past. I lack knowledge of basic history of the world and even my own country, Slovenia. It is sad - I am sad about it. I never showed interest to widen knowledge in that way. Probably growing is one of the factors that are influential. Probably travelling around is a factor. Probably the development of connections with my family is the factor.

In the past years I realized how much family means to me. Though I am far away from them, studying abroad in an unknown country with a strange language, I do miss them. But this feeling of missing them goes far out somewhere else - to the things that sharpen my inside part. I will never regret the decision of going away from home. Because with that I actually realized how much I love them.
My base in Argentina will be in the north-east of the country, at the sea, in a place called Miramar. My grandmothers brother moved there while/after war. That is one of the things I will find out in this period of being in Argentina. How it was to go away from home, the feelings, the difficulties, the economical situation, the start up, building the family, being far away from the homeland. I will capture that in conversations and I will write them down for inspiration as for my family and friends, so for myself. Though the base, I will be travelling around a bit to see some major places and also aim to get to know many Argentinians and their way of living. I will not expose myself to tourist places because the travel to Asia thought me you remember the people, small but meaningful talks, the eyes blinking sadness and despair or happiness and joy...

The other thing that I will surely keep on going is the healthy way of living, sports and breathing the nature. August 2010 changed my way of living - and my aim is to keep the spirit and move further. I never took care of what I eat and thought about the pluses of healthy sports...

Basically, I see the upcoming period positive, shiny and a period for myself and the people that I always looked up to, admired and was questioning about. I will write sometimes (at least twice a week) on the blog about how is it going and about what am I experiencing there on the other side.

Let the journey begin...