the ending of a chapter

I finally finished high school successfully and moved out of SLP. My last month there was bittersweet, I was excited for my travels and this entire new chapter, but also scared as hell of being alone, I was afraid of losing Lalo, and sad to leave the ones I love.

I didn’t meet a lot of people in San Luis, but those I did are amazing, wise, beautiful, kind hearted, and all other superlatives I know. They made my short stay in that city worth all the pain I felt there and I’m really lucky to be able to call them friends. I don’t feel the need to say their names, I’m sure they know who they are.

After leaving San Luis Potosí I spent two weeks in Puebla and then a couple of days in Mexico City. I then headed off to Playa del Carmen, which is my home right now. It’s been three weeks since the wind flew me here and these have been the most exciting, scary, lonely, and real days of my existence. I feel like I had lived in a bubble for all my life and suddenly I was thrown to the big bad world all by myself.

It’s been so hard being away from Lalo after a year and a half of being inseparable of him. The first days I would cry my eyes out and ask myself what the hell was I doing with my life. I didn’t understand anything and the heat of this city was driving me crazy. I didn’t know anybody here and felt the loneliest ever. I wouldn’t get out of the house if it wasn’t strictly necessary because I was sad and scared and wanted my bubble with the perfect world back, and Lalo with it.

After a few days it all started to make more sense. Aide, the girl with who I live with, has been the greatest, she takes me to the places she likes and we have delicious red wine nights filled with the most honest conversations. Right now her Hungarian friend Agnes, is staying with us and she sleeps on the floor and I sleep on the couch, and it’s all so much fun and I feel like I’m living in a twister and it never stops. I think I am beginning to understand this city, but not this life, it’s so filled with surprises and unpredictable, and I’m loving it. I know it’s only been a few weeks since I arrived, but my life has been so fast and everchanging that I truly feel it’s been months. I think I already am a completely different person from the one that took that plane some days ago.

the photos below are from my last month in San Luis.

my mom during a roadtrip to Tequisquiapan

she is beautiful and I miss her so much

little mirror self portrait

the always lazy and sweet Mu

a drawing an artist did of my mom

late afternoons spent skatecycling with Lalo

 

nighttime drives with Nico

the happy tree

lovers in the street

my little sister visited us and we went swimming

we also did a little trip to Guanajuato

El Callejón del Beso (The Alley of the Kiss)

we went to Evelyn's photography class and I photographed the photographers

the lovely Evelyn

me heartbroken the day before Lalo left San Luis

lazy days full of bed cuddles

Clara and I utterly excited for our upcoming trips

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Ursula