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Call it lazy, call it distracted, I`m not really sure what it is but its been a couple of months since I last updated where I am and what i`ve been doing. I think it is partly due to the fact that I have been in Colombia for almost 3 months now and its started to feel more like ordinary life then an amazing adventure. That said a lot of things have happened progresively and I now feel ready to give an account of my time here.
I think I should start with the highlights.
5 days in San Gil Santander with Alejo:
With the last of my remaining money I spent a weekend in the adventure capital of Colombia with my friend and went rafting, caving, rappelling down waterfalls and paragliding. It was an amazing 5 days and worked out really cheap.
My birthday:
I really can`t explain how amazing my Birthday was and I don`t think I will ever forget it. I celebrated my birthday with some really great people who treated me as though I was part of their family and gave me an amazing experience. The day before my birthday I celebrated my Australian birthday ( owing to the time difference) and went to a club in Bogota, the club wasn`t great but it was made up for by the fun we had with the group of people. The next morning we got in a bus for the holiday house of the family I was staying with and arrived at lunchtime to an amazing lunch of chicken corden bleu where I was given presents and had way too many photos taken of me eating my meal. There was a really nice toast made to me and afterwoods we went to the country club and played tennis and went swimming. In the night Alejo`s mum had organised a party in the house, for me and for Alejo who was meant to be going to Montreal the following week to start learning French. We had a good time at the party after he stopped stressing about the people his mum had invited and we played poker and I won, topping off the night (about $30). The following day there was another party owing to the long weekend and we went to the club and I spent the night learning how to dance... or trying at least but it was fun. Very memorable weekend.
Other highlights included a crazy party with one of the friends of Alejandro that started at 3 in the afternoon and finished at 9 but had a good atmosphere as it was in a big warehouse without any windows. It was one of the craziest parties i`ve been too. The following night we went to another club which was well overpriced and lacked a good vibe.
Finally after much waiting I went to Medellin (the second city in Colombia) originally only for a week, which later turned into 6. This is where I am now. AFter coming here and meeting some good people and learning about the language program at the university of one of my friends I decided to spend a month dedicated to improving my spanish. I had to go back to Bogota to change my visa so i spent 9 hours in bus to reach Bogota then spent the day in the Ministry to change my Visa which took almost 5 hours of waiting and then a bus the following day back to Medellin. It was an incredibly long 2 days.
But Now i have been studying for almost 3 weeks, 2 hours a day in the morning. I am down to my last $100, its very sad I know, especially when I have 2 months left of my trip. I had my widom teeth out last weekend and am still feeling the associated pain.
The other weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to go rappelling down waterfalls again in a place close to Medellin which was really amazing, this one was over 200m high and took almost 7 hours to complete in 7-8 different stages.
My course finishes next week and I am thinking I will start travelling again after 3 months in Colombia. I want to get to Argentina so will start by bus through Ecuador and Peru. I will keep you posted on my progress.
Thats about all I have time for now. Hope this finds everyone well. I don`t know for sure yet but at this stage it looks like I will be back in Australia in a couple of months for a short time before endeavouring to learn Mandarin in China. I look forward to seeing everyone again soon.
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