How did more than four months go by with no blogpost? I have missed writing but have had other things taking my energy and time since September, including getting a job in Boulder, and all the things that go with coming back into “responsible adult life” in a community I was away from for a long time. Since returning I’ve …
From time to time, I’m going to write more about my life in Colombia, and this post is dedicated to a very important person there. Raul Posse is the man who hired me to teach English for a language school in Bogotá which specializes in providing personalized one-on-one or small group classes for business English language learners. Not only was …
At 22 years of age, I graduated college from Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo. That time of my life has been on my mind because I recently visited friends in San Luis Obispo (commonly called “SLO”). I haven’t spent any significant time there since graduating and therefore, being in SLO brought back many a memory, and some reflection. …
Ill never forget the tears that just kept coming, back on March 10, 2018, as my plane took off from San Francisco: final destination Bogotá. I was excited and happy that I’d made the decision and finished all the preparations to move to Colombia for a year, but the overwhelming feelings of unknown and having chosen to go far from my …
I feel like I’ve developed a relationship with you, dear readers, and to maintain the transparency in this relationship, I have to be honest with you. I struggled during December, and it’s not because I was lonely at Christmas (which I wasn’t). My move to a much smaller city in the coffee region of Colombia was a bit tough. Yes …
I arrived in Chinchiná, Caldas within the Eje Cafetero (coffee-growing) region of Colombia on Saturday. I chose this move in order to have a different experience particularly for the holiday season. The organization Minga House coordinates volunteers to help with a wide variety of community needs. Many of their volunteers are foreigners who come for a meaningful travel experience and …