update on the verge of leaving beloved Bogotà….

Well, as is obvious I have been rubbish at updating regularly on this blog, and rather than spending days and days agonisingly trying to translate my diary, I will give a summary of Bogotà, and my other travels around Colombia and then write a better report when I launch my award-winning travel novel, so watch this space! lol

Well, it`s Sunday early afternoon, 28th June 2009 and I am sitting in Hostal Sue, waiting for the rain to stop so I can go with the others to Rock Al Parque…it`s reggae today and will be really good(sans rain).

I have been living in this hostal for about 6 or 7 weeks, and over that time I have made some really good mates. I am basically having the best time of my life and the fact that there is a group of guys here who are all staying a while means I really feel like I have a family, for the first time(and I think more so) since Intiwawa…

I will write a page of characters I musn`t forget, and from this angle I predict that most of them will be from Sue… To update, as I realise I haven`t, after carnival I came back to Bogotà, started my jobs(more on that later) one in a kindergarten and the others teaching private classes to kids, met some wicked people, hated the cranky croc, left after 2 months-ish(no discount, no respect, no feeling of ´home´there) moved to an apartment, stayed for a grand total of 3 weeks then left and went to Hostal Sue, which proved to be the best decision I made regarding accommodation in Bogotà! At the same time as I arrived, there were quite a few others who arrived as well, and wanted to stay so it is from this perspective that I write this now.

I am going to leave on Thursday, I have a flight to Leticia, on the southern border tip of Colombia, only reachable by plane and I will get a boat from there to Manaus and then aterwards Bolivia, where I`ll get a bus to Buenos Aires. I haven`t saved nearly as much as I expected to so as soon as I get there I need to find work.