The Best of Bogotá
After three months (!!!) in the heat and sabor of Barranquilla, it was recently time for a trip back to the capital city’s familiar overcast chaos. Bogotá seemed bigger and […]
Category Archives: Bogota
Told ya I touched him.
Link to the WT blog post I wrote about our meeting with the Prez: http://worldteachnow.blogspot.com/2013/01/worldteach-colombia-kicks-off-year-with.html
Starstruck
I saludar-ed the president. Yea, the president of the Republic of Colombia. Juan Manuel Santos himself granted me a genuine, arm-grasping, cheek-kissing Colombian greeting. In person! I touched a Latin […]
Deja vu? Or something like that, only way different.
December 31, 2012. A year ago, I was saying goodbye to some of my oldest friends in Washington, DC just a few days before I would leave for a year […]
Sh** Colombians Say, Part 7
I miss you already, accent-less rolos. Mona Many people with basic Spanish knowledge will tell you that “mono” means monkey. They’re right…everywhere else. In Colombia, mono or mona is used […]
Colombia: The Risk is Choosing the Slowest Line at the Grocery Store and other stories
Fifteen hypothetical chapters (blog posts?) that would star in a work of non-fiction about my (ahem, first) year in Colombia. What Were My High School Teachers Doing On Weekends? I’m […]
Assimilation Nation
I’ve come to terms with the fact that it takes an hour to go anywhere in Bogotá and the line at Éxito is going to move twice as slowly as […]
Why Leave When I Could…Stay?
I’m thinking about staying. Seriously thinking. As in, I might live in the same general location for another year. Two years! in the same place! On purpose! Is this me […]
If I Were the Marrying Kind (but thank the LORD I’m not, sir)
A few days ago I found myself trying to scrub the dirt off my legs in the shower, until I realized it was a bruise. I smiled. I’m playing rugby […]
Hey ya’ll, it’s summer!
I’ve kind of been denying the existence of summer because…I miss it. Convertible cruising, swimming in any available body of water, outdoor concerts, food and drink festivals, redneck adventures in […]
