Balcony

First Impressions

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November 10th 2011
I’ll try to make this short but there’s already so much to tell, and you know me and details… Upon finally arriving to Manos Amigas (the volunteer house), all of the kids excitedly greeted me with a hug before I could even get one foot in the door. (We volunteer with hundreds of kids all around the city, but there’s a group that are always here during the day.) One of them, Anderson (he's ... read more

South America » Colombia

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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more