From: Tomer Morad [tomer_morad@hotmail.com]
Sent: éåí ùéùé 08 îøõ 2002 16:21
To: tomer_morad@hotmail.com
Subject: Home is where the heart is!

Hola Everyone!
Behold, the last email I will send from abroad!  Are you exited?  I surely 
am...  It is, after all, the last email I send in which I will try to sum up 
the past six months of my vacation.  After this one, you won`t be needing 
your email account anymore, it just won´t be the same...  :)
So before the sum-up and conclusions, let me first update you on my last 
ephisodes:
The previous email (and second to last...) ended in Salvador, Brazil.  Since 
then Gabby and I managed to play a serious game of dominos with some local 
people, and fool around with the local taxi drivers and beggars.  We then 
flew to Buenos Aires, to make the grand finale of the trip.  I rented an 
apartment until my flight home (today), and have enjoyed parties, discos, 
salsa and good food up until now.  Argentina turned out to be in-line with 
all the other cheap countries in South America.  In the two months that I 
have been away, almost all the prices stayed the same in Pesos, but the Peso 
was devaluated by more than %100.  Great time to come and visit here.  It is 
safe too.  Don´t forget to take me with you... :)
You may ask (if not I will just tell you anyway) what is waiting for me in 
Israel.  Well, my future plans are to land in Israel tomorrow (which turned 
out to be quite difficult, thanks to British Airways), and start my masters 
in the faculty of Electrical Engineering in the Technion.  Hopefully, my 
life will look a little different than how it looked when I did the B.Sc.  
It is YOUR job to remind me to travel again when I finish the masters (yes, 
it is addictive!).
So...  To sum things up, what did we have in the past six months?  I´ll try 
to remember some of the highlights:  Nightlife in Lima, goodlife in cuzco, 
machu pichu, being very sick in the middle of the Apurimac river, visiting 
jungles, mosquitos, favelas of rio, beautiful beach resorts in Brazil, the 
great Iguazu Falls, the Pantanal, crystal clear rivers, the beautiful and 
fun city of Buenos Aires, 5 Argentine presidents, demonstrations, tear gas, 
soccer celebrations, Salsa, Spanish lessons, tracks in New Zealand, one 
dislocated shoulder,  flying lessons on a Cessna, swimming with dolphins, 
carnaval in Olinda, encounters with the police, African religious ritual, 
the millions of times that I changed my mind about where to go, and fun, 
fun, fun!
Making this list made me realize how many things I have done in the last six 
months compared to the things I have done in my whole lifetime of 24 
years...
>From all of the highlights, there is one that stands way higher than the 
others - that is meeting all the different kinds of people, especially the 
local people from South America.  It is great learning from people who have 
a different culture than what I have in Israel.  At times I was sure that 
the western culture was despensable and the latin culture should take over.  
Maybe it really should... :)  People who have been here know exactly what I 
am talking about.  Those who haven´t been here yet, well, the answer is in 
the sentence.
This IS (I can still write in present tense) definately the best and most 
important experience of my life.  Of course, I have many conclusions.  I 
will share the most important one with you:  Always follow your heart, doing 
it smartly - This is the moto that brought me back from New Zealand to South 
America, which turned out to be a very wise decision.  No matter how I will 
like travelling, and how it seems tempting to stay here for another 342 
years, I have a home with family and friends who I truely miss and love.  
And because home is where the heart is, and I have to follow my heart 
smartly, well...  SCOOOOOOOP!!!!!!!! (no!)  Mom, prepare my meat, I am on my 
way!!!
Love,
Tomer.

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