We had another really fun day! A few days ago, we met a very friendly taxi driver. He only speaks Spanish, but he gave us his number and told us he did city tours. He was willing to be patient with my imperfect Spanish so we took him up on his offer. He picked us …
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Friday!
It’s Saturday! I was too exhausted to do an update last night and I’m just getting around to posting Bill’s update this morning. He did a really good job, so I’m just going to add a couple things to his post. After our dance class, I suggested to Bill that we could potentially be great …
Bill’s Salsa Post and More!
We are now entrenched in Colombia, day 6, 4 days of attempted brainwashing by Karen the polyglot. She has started thinking of ways to punish me when I translate what she says. Tomorrow may involve corporal punishment!! I suppose it’s fair as she has had to endure 12ish hours with me. I may be improving …
Salsa!
We had a really fun day! This morning we swam for a while at the beach. Then we spent some time studying Spanish, and Bill fixed ham sandwiches for lunch. Classes went really well. I’m learning a lot, and I love my class! I wish I had more time to spend in Spanish-speaking countries. After …
Mid-Week in Cartagena – Bill’s post
This is Bill’s post from yesterday. I spent all morning studying French in preparation for my conversation with Dominique then had three hours of Spanish. I was wiped out by the end of the day! I’ll have a post tonight or tomorrow morning after our salsa lessons. We made a run to the market this …
Bill’s Post
Bill got up before me and had a delicious omelet with toast, peanut butter and honey ready when I got up. Here is his post below! He wrote it yesterday evening, but I was too tired to post it last night. We went down to the beach for a couple hours this morning before lunch …
No Disasters Today
We had a very tranquil day! No flooding, no power outages, not problems with the air conditioner. Bill and I went swimming this morning. He tried out his new snorkel gear, I swam and bounced in the waves then soaked up sun on the beach. It was lovely. We fixed some mediocre pasta for lunch …
Bill’s First Day of Class Update
Hola! We are getting settled into our apartment. I’m getting more accustomed to how some of the things work here. The windows are single paned and have aluminum frames so sound comes right though and there isn’t much of an insulating factor to them. Most people where we are staying keep their windows open so …
First Day of Class/Power outage
Yesterday morning, Bill and I went in for our Spanish placement test. This wasn’t as useful for as as for the other students because we have private lesson rather than a class, so we don’t need to test into a specific class. But, it gave us a chance to finalize our enrollment with the school …
Bill’s First Colombia Post
I started the first leg of the trip to Colombia yesterday with a drive to St. Louis. The night was short with an early morning flight, at least this was our choice for this trip. With luck or on time flights we will be in Cartagena about 1:00 pm. Getting through STL was rather quick, I …
Traveling with Emily! 