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Published: March 3rd 2007
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the plane to take me to s america
my first flight of the trip! Big day. Gate 32... this is just to let everyone know I made it to venezuela alive. Even made it a few days in the capital. That was fun, and I´ll write about my adventures there later.
I remember before I started my trip, one of my friends said, ¨You´ll never make it thru central america man, you can´t go to venezuela now.¨ Well, first of all, venezuela isn´t in central america, and second of all, I went there anyway! Who cares where you´re suppossed to go? You just go where you want in life, that´s my new philosophy.
Anyway, one really funny thing I´ve got to write down is, last night I went to the music university, and got into a chorus class. This one kid was wearing a long sleeve button shirt, and underneath he had a t shirt with an american flag, big and right across the front. He had the shirt half unbuttonned to reveal it. On the top it said, ¨United States of America¨ I thought it was pretty hilarious. So I went into the class, because they invited me in to listen. It was so cool hearing them sing. They were singing a hymn, about god blessing
from the take off.
Goodbye panama city, hello caracas. us all, and all this peace. It was just what I needed. I was pooped out from a 18 hour bus ride the night before, on which I didn´t sleep much. Plus I didn´t sleep much because when I got in to Caracas, I stayed up all night waiting for the bus to Caracas. The taxis wanted to charge about 70 dollars...so I stayed up with two girls I met at the airport. The next day, no naps, we went right out to experience the city. I ended up crashing at about 7...then decided to take the bus overnight next night! So it was a rough few days. Last night I went out and had a drink, made it till 12, then slept until 10. That was real nice.
Anyway, there have been many adventures in between, but I´m getting distracted again, sorry. As I was saying. Then, in to the chorus class comes this guy with a hat with the american flag. I was like, I thought they aren´t suppossed to like america. Well, truth is, I´m not the biggest fan, but you can´t go by stereotypes. Another guy in class had a NY hat, and seemed like
delicious plane food
I´m serious it was really really good. about half of them had something from america on. I think they were about 18. So the younger generation isn´t too anti american.
I sat down to lunch the day before with this guy from Venezuela. He spoke english, so we spoke in english. He said, Chavez doesn´t like Bush too much, and he wondered why. Because Bush is stupid, I said. I went on to explain how neither I, nor probably the majority of people in our country like Bush. He was quite pleased I think. He said, he thinks all people are the same. China, Africa, the same. I said, yeah, everyone is different, but the same. He shook my hand for that one. Then he said, be careful here and Columbia, because there isn´t anything worse than a north american to them. I´m pretty sure he wasn´t talking about canada or mexico, but the good ol u.s of a. And that´s true, but at the same time, people approach you as an individual, and it doesn´t matter where you´re from, but who you are.
Today, I just went around the market with an international crew: Iran, Venezuela, France, Britian, Canada, States, Greece...it was cool. We
amigas
we stayed up all night in the airport, then hung out all the next day. went to the market and got all kinds of food, because we are going to cook up the bomb meal tonight. So I have to get back pretty quick, because I´m to butcher the chickens, maybe with this new switchblade I got...finally get to try it on more than pineapple, ha ha. I might use a butcher knife instead though. Yeah, we got whole chickens!
Anyway, just wanted to give the low down. Now I´m in Merida, a real chill town with huge mountains looming over it, and it has a few guinness world records, get this--the longest, highest teleferico (gondola) in the world, and the ice cream shop with the most flavors. How about that? I´m gunna try them both...it´s nice to get to somewhere a little more chill than caracas, it´s mad there. Anyway, I´ll write about that later.
Until then, Peace!
Colin
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Jason
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I've been to the ice cream shop, good stuff.