A return to Cartagena
Last weekend I came back to the wonderful city of Cartagena, on the north coast of Colombia, for the first time in 3.5 years. My first international AIESEC conference, Americas Expros 2002, was in Cartagena, in the section of the city called Boca Grande, and that's exactly where I have been all week.
Going for a walk on Sunday afternoon brought back good memories. The conference was my favourite AIESEC conference out of all that I've been to. I walked past the hotel where the conference was. There is now a McDonald's in front of the Hotel Costa del Sol that definately was not there the first time I walked past.
I am also staying in the Hilton Hotel this time, which is a step up from last time, but with less cultural charm. And my spanish is much better this time than it was last time too, which is nice.
I am here for work (hence staying at the Hilton) and have been doing 12 hour days each day, so haven't had much of a chance to look around. But work shall be finished by mid next week, and then I am staying in Cartagena until July 12, a combination of relaxing and AIESEC conferencing (the Colombian NATS conference will be in Cartagena in early July).
So all in all, it's good to be back here. What I am wondering is how much Bogotá will feel like "home" when I go back there after 24 days away...
Going for a walk on Sunday afternoon brought back good memories. The conference was my favourite AIESEC conference out of all that I've been to. I walked past the hotel where the conference was. There is now a McDonald's in front of the Hotel Costa del Sol that definately was not there the first time I walked past.
I am also staying in the Hilton Hotel this time, which is a step up from last time, but with less cultural charm. And my spanish is much better this time than it was last time too, which is nice.
I am here for work (hence staying at the Hilton) and have been doing 12 hour days each day, so haven't had much of a chance to look around. But work shall be finished by mid next week, and then I am staying in Cartagena until July 12, a combination of relaxing and AIESEC conferencing (the Colombian NATS conference will be in Cartagena in early July).
So all in all, it's good to be back here. What I am wondering is how much Bogotá will feel like "home" when I go back there after 24 days away...
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If home is where the heart is, then I think you'll do just fine... ;)
Home is where the heart is, but where is my heart? (apart from the literal answer of course)
I am starting to get quite attached to Bogota though. Or maybe home is more defined by who your with as opposed to where you are.
1. You're, not 'your'.
2. Good to see a real update!
3. I think it Bogota will feel exactly like it did before, whether that feels like home or not...
Roslyn,
1) Thanks for pointing that out. I think Jen's influence must be starting to rub off on me. (Actually, since I have started trying to learn spanish, my english has just gone to shit)
2) Mathematics counts as a real update.
3) "that", not "it" :P
I think there's a law somewhere that says that any comment intended to correct a spelling or grammatical error will itself contain a spelling or grammatical error. Sigh.
I was originally going to just say 'it', and decided that was ambiguous and should say Bogota instead, and just missed deleting the 'it'. Anyway.
Maths does not count as a real update, unless it is maths which can actually be done by me.
So Roslyn, you are in Australia right? What are you doing posting blog comments in the middle of the night? Do you have an essay due or something?
And even though you were a member of the city-shield winning Copland College team at the 1998 University of Canberra Maths Day, I still don't think I can operate under those kinds of restrictions.
Whatever happened to Mr. Uhu?
Yeah, I had an assignment to finish.
We sent Mr UHU to the glue factory.
Dude, where are you...? Update already...
Update is coming very soon. I was out of town for 3 and a half weeks, and for 2 of those weeks I was online for a grand total of 30 minutes.
That in itself is material for an update - the effects of going 2 weeks without the internet and having the realisation that I really didn't miss anything substantial at all... More soon :)
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