Blogs from Medellin, Colombia, South America - page 32

I have been asking myself lately why I just don't feel like leaving..I just DON'T WANT TO LEAVE COLOMBIA...why the thought of leaving is affecting me more than I would have ever expected...it is much more than just scary ...it is painful....so, after wracking my brains out, I reached a conclusion... I am going to share it with all of you out there , wondering why Colombia has such a strange, almost mystical power, overwhelming, that once you get here you fall madly in love with her and there is no way back, you simply don't want to leave her! And what is even stranger is that it is an acquired taste, it catches you by surprise and it overwhelms you step by step, it ain't love at first sight, no,not at all! You LEARN to ... read more

Finally I got to see it. The famous Pueblito Paisa. And I must hand it to the people who advertise it as if it were the best thing in Medellin, it is one of the nicest places to visit indeed. It is basically what the name anticipates: a miniature of a typical Colombian village. It is tiny and beautiful, it has a small church, a tiny city hall,the mayerºs house, an ancient barberºs shop,an old school, which is actually only a classroom with desks,an old board from the ancient times when they still used chalk to write, the town square and small tiendas selling souvenirs for the tourists. You can see the women cooking outside traditional paisa dishes, such as natilla, gelatina de pata, which are ¨postres¨-traditional dessert... Pueblito Paisa is on the top of a ... read more

I love my work at Eafit! I love it to bits! I love teaching and think I'm very good at it. I get along well with my students and they genuinely seem to enjoy my classes. We had 'Evaluation del Docente', which means that students get to assess the teacher's activity in class, diversity of audio-visual teaching materials used, how involved the teacher really is in the individual progress of each student and so on. And according to my results, my students are very happy with me and my teaching :). I knew that, but it's so good to get confirmation!! Cheers! Enjoy the pictures! Some are taken during a pop quiz and some in the Eafit resource center. ... read more

It's strange how living in a country for a long time gives you another perspective , totally different from the one you had at the beginning. It's true that some things never change, but some of them you grow to accept and strangely enough to tell yourself that their way is much better than your way. Rest assured, I'm not getting lazy or irresponsible jejeje... that's what I've been complaining about the Colombian people on the coast. But not only that I understand them better and the way they think and see life in general, not only that I've started to accept things which in the beginning seemed excruciatingly stupid and out of place, but now I do believe that when it comes to certain aspects of life, their way is THE WAY. It still shocks ... read more

Oh my God how can you not love Colombia? And when I say love I mean head over heels in love with this country!! Puente? You know what a puente is? It s a long weekend, a three-day weekend, from Friday all the way to Tuesday. They celebrate....things...saints...God knows what !! They surely don't!! lol...You only know you get 3 days off and you get paid for it!! If you ask a Colombian what is the puente for, no idea! But who cares? Nobody gives a damn! The point is you have 3 days to partyyyyy and here they party hard!!! Ok, I will tell you all about my 1st long weekend here. Some of my students ask me to translate that in English. Hell no, how could I translate something so latin, so...abnormal ?? ...:) ... read more