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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…
Interesting journey...
We arrive in St. Lucia on Tuesday late afternoon. After passing through customs and completing all the formalities, we exit the port free! We start looking for a bus to go to the marina at Rodney Bay, in the northwest of the island. At first glance, there are a lot…
Dominica
Thanks to a WhatsApp group, I got in touch with a captain who is leaving for Guadeloupe in a few days. Yohann, the captain, bought a little sailboat in Martinique and is bringing it back home to Guadeloupe. He is stopping in Dominica on the way and is willing to…
The Martinique Hostel
When backpacking, we often stay in youth hostels, also known as "Hostel" in English. A hostel is like a hotel but with an extra "S". The difference is that in a hotel you have a private room, while in a hostel you have a dormitory. In the hostel, there are…