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La Unión, part 2 🇬🇧
Week 11 - September 21, 2025: On Friday, at the school, I go through French classes with 4 or 5 groups. We cover the basics: hello, good evening, goodbye, thank you, please, I love you... I also taught them to say hello in Japanese and Arabic, and they repeat it at…
La Unión 🇬🇧
Week 7 - August 24, 2025 There are changes this week! After a quiet Monday, I give my last classes on Tuesday; we finished the emotion classes, and in English, we worked hard over the past month and a half. On Wednesday, to conclude my stay at Milagros' school, I provided…
Milagros 🇨🇴 Part 2: (English Version)
Week 4 - August 3, 2025: We start the week with gardening. A representative from the municipality brought seedlings to plant. He gives us a quick lesson on how to put them in the ground, the distances needed between each plant, etc. We spend the morning planting, weeding, basically gardening. Among…
Milagros 🇨🇴 (English version)
In the previous episode: I was about to leave Medellin heading to Yopal, in the Casanare region, to volunteer for 3 months in the countryside teaching English and French among other subjects. After spending 2 nights in Guatapé, I hitchhiked east. 2 days of hitchhiking, buses, walking, and far too little…
A Huge country
Just south of Santa Marta lies the village of Minca. This tourist village is situated in the mountains and jungle, a 40-minute drive from Santa Marta with a huge difference in climate. You go from a dry city where you can count the rainy days on one hand, where temperatures…
Colombia 🇨🇴
46 hours. That's how long it took to cross from Panama to Colombia. 7, the number of times I vomited during this crossing. There are days when things just don't go right, and today was one of those days. As an excuse, I would say we were going against the…