letter from the editor

Dear Reader,

Welcome, again, to De Adentro Hacia Afuera Magazine: a world for the creative and brave students of New York University’s Buenos Aires Campus. As this semester starts to come close to its end, I’ve been thinking a lot about the future. It always seems impossible to predict what may come as we round the bend of every year. Will things go on as unusual as they are? Will the world turn on its head? Is there any use in trying to predict the answers to these questions?

What I’m trying to say is that this is a project uniquely situated in its place. DAHA exists as a bridge between a community studying abroad and our host nation. So what happens when we all leave? When the host country continues as if nothing happened. Argentina will continue undisturbed by our harsh American English and small crowds hovering on the corner of Anchorena and Charcas. But we will remember.

By the 22nd of December, all of us will have boarded our flights and journeyed to our respective homes. And yet we will always remain. In the connections, we’ve formed with Argentine people and the incredible NYUBA staff. We remain in places we had the pleasure of traveling to, filled with incomparable natural wonders. And we remain in the strong memories of this semester. I’m not sure what the future of DAHA looks like, but Iam beyond proud of the home we’ve created for those memories and experiences.

For now, let’s talk about the amazing issue that lies in the pages that follow. La Caída Del Agua is inspired by our school trip to Iguazú Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. In that falling water, there is so much glory and raw emotion. The sheer power of the water brought about so much creativity and a lot of it is captured here. This issue speaks to the power of washing things away and the transformational power of water. I hope you feel as much strength in the words written here as we felt seeing the Northern Argentine falls. We are now preparing to travel back in time and experience the jump from summer to winter. I am happy to be rejoicing over what we’ve been able to create next semester and I can’t wait to see the beautiful things that come from the minds of this NYUBA cohort. Please enjoy this issue of DAHA and applaud those who worked so hard on it! You will be hearing from me again!