sooo...the third entry...i already feel like a native, is that good or bad? hmm...hard to judge but my friends in Canada already refer to me as "Colombia"... I really appreciate the culture here, but I have also changed, like a chameleon, I have adapted to my surroundings very well, i think... I believe, that I've changed to a manner that's more straightforward, that I don't beat around the bush...people here are very honest for the better or for the worst which is different than in Canada, we try to please people and end up being two-faced at times....here it's take it [View Full Entry]

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well first of all you have to run across and pray to God that those lovely yellow taxis and the gentlemen driving them will not make you into a pancake! (I really hope my insurance is sufficient!:)) continuing.... what it feels like to be in Bogota, Colombia.... it is a sweet mixture of Spain and its leftover colonial haciendas, mixed with uber-chic modernity (feels like I am in Northern Europe) with a little bit of latin american Locura (craziness) thrown in and blended well to form a cocktail that really wakes you up every morning! (like a Caesar after a long [View Full Entry]

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Culture is a hard concept to describe...it involves every part of one's existence from the country they were born in, to their values, to their appearance and to their form of dress. I personally can describe my culture as something that is a form of thinking, what one was brought up as. I am Lithuanian (Eastern European) and value this dearly, it is a culture of many things; of potatoes and pork, of large heavy wool and linen folk costumes, of rainy weather, of flat farmlands, of vodka and good beer, a mix of Christinity (and religiousness), of highly valued post-secondary [View Full Entry]

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