Gabriel Garcia Marquez and cappuccino shisha

reading Living to Tell the Tale and listening to an IPod full of Latina music is a sure bet for some interesting conversations on 18 hour bus rides across the country...I love talking to the locals who have had relatively little exposure to people from outside of Colombia and who are fascinated by the idea of a foreigner not only visiting, but living and working in their country, learning about Colombian culture...

...hanging out in Bogota, listening to Christmas music with Tiff, Arnie, and Steve, watching fireworks off the balcony, eating Doritos, McFlurries, and Reeses PB Cups, the HOBO is on it's way, I fly out of the country at 230 tomorrow afternoon.....

life is good.