Roaming South America

New Year 2014

January 8, 2014

I'm back. I should have written sooner but have been busy, which is a good thing. So I last left you with mentioning about the english presentations here at work. The presentation day came and people were busy practicing and discussing what they were doing for their own presentation. There were a couple people who did karaoki, and a couple who did a family tree presentation.

Christmas and company parties

December 28, 2013

The photo album is working now, yay! Be sure to check it out.

I didn't do a very good job of keeping track of things to write about, so I am just going from what I can remember this time.

Lets see, Kal Tire had a party at a place called Zunilda (http://www.villazunilda.com/). It was very nice. I have some pics in the Barranquilla photo album. We had a very nice lunch, dancing, swimming for the kids, paddle boats on the pond.

Moved into my new apartment!

December 9, 2013

I got moved in to my new apartment today! Yay! It's an old apartment but I don't care, it's mine. And it's an actual apartment, not a storage room trying to be an apartment. And the landlord lowered the rent from $350.000 COP per month to $300.000 COP. (COP is Colombian Pesos. Just a bit under 2000 COP per dollar. So my rent is just a bit under $150 US per month. Notice the "$" is also the Peso sign, not just dollars.)

Land of the free, and another apartment opportunity

December 4, 2013

Nov 28th, Thanksgiving, here at Kal Tire we had a thanksgiving lunch - the company signed a very big contract with a multinational mining company. So everyone here went to a restaurant for lunch. It was very nice, a big fancy restaurant called Las Vegas.

Then one day when I was riding the bus to work another man gets on and instead of sitting down he stood at the front and started preaching to the riders on the bus.

Been Quiet

October 13, 2013

Hi, it's been a quiet two weeks since my last update. Last week was a school vacation week. I have only 3 lessons last week. My students were either travelling for business or taking a vacation week with their families. This next week should be back on track with a regular schedule.