Last week was was going to be hard, I was aware beforehand. Many exams, assignments and things to do (and books to read, too!).

Coming from one of my (extra) English lessons my mum gave me a devastating, unwanted new. Mariana had called earlier to let me know a good friend of us, Florencia, had had an accident with a motorbike and that she was in coma. The day before her birthday, and doing something she wasn’t supossed to do. The motorbike crashed into a school bus in a speedway near home and she was the one to hit it harder (she wasn’t riding it, a friend of her was — who broke her jaw).

We rushed to the public hospital were she was being attended and spent there a good while until she was sent to a better hospital, where she’s staying at the moment.

This was last Wednesday, and she’s still like that, but recovering, according to the doctors. The visits have been prohibited last weekend because she got too excited when we talked to her (I am extremly positive she can hear us) and that was no good for her brain pressure, that was quite high at that point. Now it is apparently normal, but they won’t allow pass further than the glass separating the corridor from her room.

This week, that has been intensely hard, we have managed to go there twice, and we’ll go tomorrow again and be some company for her parents and her boyfriends, who spend all their time next to her room.

The worse is, before all this happened, we were getting a little bit distanced because of a stupid reason of a friend, because of a boy, obviously. She’s not with us at school, so we didn’t see her always, but quite often. Because of that, we saw her even less. We (well, me not much, I did try to get her closer to us) feel so guilty because of that, and now I think about that, it’s so kiddish. I mean, do we have to wait for something like this to happen to realize how meaningful for you your friends, family, etcetera, are?

Changing subjects, I am utterly excited! I am seeing my only two cousins (Lautaro, 8 and Malena, 3) after over a year this Saturday! My dad and his brother had been distanced for a while, but now the wound in between seems to be healing, and I am finally seeing them again. I missed them so much.