un blog para compartir unas historias colombianas....

Monday, August 24, 2009

no longer la nueva.. la vieja de pronto?

it's difficult to know what to write here now - something definitive and conclusive, something funny, something emotional, in spanish? english?

tomorrow night i am flying to canada from bogota. with all my most important things. and i'm leaving behind a load of stuff for friends and also a part of my heart.

it's been a whirlwind three years.

2 schools, 2 cities, 5 fieldtrips, 200 students (WHAT!), incredible colleagues, inspiring friends, brasil, san andres, italy, chicago, the amazon, the islands, team three, AIM 07, the fountain in florence, tayrona, the bigbang, the penthouse, darpapaya, la plaza, juan valdez, maria candelaria, museo botero, la quinta, visits from alexander, sarah, astrid, alex, christopher, kelly, eamonn, carolynn, katie, my mum twice and my dad - visits to antonio, home. falling in love. 2 villages. tashi. mani, la despedida, pop, prom granadino, stella boots, secret love affairs, orchids, a bachelorette party at my house, a wedding on the beach, a welcome back party, a slight stalker and a lot of cisv work. lilies, roses, cold showers and so much love. juanma's mum and dad. luz and chucho. playing guitar with nick, ico. patio dance party and spritz afternoon. alice's graduation party, mateo and our adventure to alkosto, villa de leyva, birthday chiva, vallenato band and papayera.fresh fruit, arepahuevo... and love. most of all love.

things i hope i will never ever forget.

and although for the past while i haven't been recording any moments here, on this blog is a lot of what i've experienced - we've made some beautiful memories here.

a todos mis mas queridos me van a hacer una falta impresionante, de verdad no se cuanto me aguanta para devolverme por aca por lo menos por una visitica. espero que llegue ese dia pronto. hemos hecho de estes tres anios un sueno total - y siempre estaran conmigo.

on to new adventures, and possibly a new blog? will let you know, my beautiful (and now probably extremely minimal) readers.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

to recreate us.

i fell in love again
all things go, all things go

drove to chicago
all things know, all things know

we sold our clothes to the state
i don't mind, i don't mind

i made a lot of mistakes
in my mind, in my mind



so, chicago was pretty beautiful.
then i had to go to ohio and run a cisv training - which was also great, in a different way.
in fact, it was great in exactly this way:



i've been back in bogota for a week, feeling abit like it was a daydream but heeey it was so excellent that the school gave me a week off! i have a feeling if i ever teach in canada it will be way more complicated to get time off.

we're winding things up in bogota - two special visits, then i'm off to dolomites/rome at the end of june, back to guatemala for the AIM and then to the beach to sing songs and play the guitar at juanca and ali's wedding.

i'll be back in canada on the 26th of august - for good! it's going to be weird. but i'm mentally preparing myself.

if you have a bike, or an apartment, that you want to give me for next year (in toronto), please inform.

and this is dorkface.


big smiles.
loverin

Sunday, January 25, 2009

katester kicks it in the (other) big city.

love er a lot.
wish she were around more often.



juanca and katester.

teachie-do.

katester takes over the botanics.

shocked in the botanical gardens.


rebecca.

dork alert.

me and la campiƱa

that's where we got the meat on sticks.

i love parties like this.

meat on sticks.




with friends and a giraffe.

really happy with lunch.


great visit.

good energy.

funny pictures.

likely i'll write a book about it.