Wednesday 3/7/13 So, this week I got my head down at work a lot more and we managed to get the kids to talk about what they wanted to do jobwise in future. It was touching really. Some talked about police and how they are here to protect them (particularly relevant in their situation) and others talked about teachers. I got a few more "que linda" comments from Jorge (the boy who used to be a prostitute on the streets. He likes to dress as a girl these days.) Jor...

Monday 1/7/13 Monday morning, I gotta say, I felt pretty rough. Some people were going later that afternoon and I decided to go to El Rancho with them. I met them at el parque de la musica at about 2 pm. We decided to get some food and headed to the supermarket, where I bought tinned peaches (I think they were peaches) and beer. Together, Cathryn (lovely english girl who speaks amazing spanish), Sebastian (hard as nails colombian guy) James (hilarious tall gay g...

Sunday 30/06/13 Today I woke up so early and had a lovely cold shower before heading to La Plaza de Bolivar to meet everyone. I didn't have any breakfast because I wasn't sure how scared I'd be. We got minibus, there were about 32 of us I think, and we headed up into the mountains. All of us were talking about what lay ahead. It was fairly terrifying. We headed right up in to the mountains and it was chucking it down as we went through the clouds. Luckily when ...

Tuesday 25/06/13 This morning made me realise how much I'm used to eating back at home. I sat down for breakfast and it was tostada con queso (that hard bread with cream cheese), a frankfurter and chocolate milkshake. It makes me laugh how weird the food can be here. But then again I really miss food at home. Like roast dinner, pasta and stuff like that. It gets a bit tiring when we only ever eat in the restaurant downstairs and I usually have either steak, chip...

Monday 24/06/13 Today was a bank holiday, which was brilliant. I had a meeting at 10 with other AIESECers. We sat outside in the garden of someones house and talked. There I met Emma and her boyfriend Steven again, Iain, Dan, Hugo (from Mexico), and Christelle from California, who will be working with me in the Foundation. We did a bit of a lesson plan. I was a bit bored and when we left Ricardo drove me, Hugo and Alejandra to his quad bike place on a farm. Whil...