fin de semana & nueva semana

Hola Chicos!

After a crazy party on Saturday (as usually I was the last one who wanted to go home), I had pretty usual Sunday doing nothing for entire day (hangover after discovering new ¨combo¨: aguardiente + beer). On the evening though, we went to a bar (some kind of Hard Rock), small, cosy, playing Colombian´s rock/blues bands. About eleven we had a strange feeling of getting in a trouble there so we simply asked security for help, took a taxi and went home. Another story...

Discussion of the weekend: Mauro (Argentina), Emilia (PL), Adam (PL).
Obviously we didn´t come across any light subject (besides if we had, I would have nothing to tell you about), so Capitalism vs Socialism (or liberty vs. communism). Talked about Hugo Chavez, Polish history, Indians culture (yeah, religion was also involved:) ), great teachers of the world, slovakian authors (not my part, I don´t know much about them). Mauro appeared to be fond of Chavez politics. Well, there were many conclusions, unfortunately (or fortunately) no of them was really "ours".
But we have a question of the week coming straight from this discussion:
"does liberty (capitalism) kill thinking?". What do I think? Looking on our behaviour towards nature, I really wish we had some bees in the world in 30 years. I love honey:)

Sentence of the weekend - "believes are sometimes traditions".

Spanish - I´ve had two lessons with Angie...UFFFFF, I don´t like homeworks....But I stay with her, as she appeared to be a very good teacher, besides even after such short time I can see a progress (I hope not only me:) )

Salsa - .............A W E S O M E. I had my first lesson yesterday, basically it was not only Salsa, but also Merengue (pretty easy to learn) and others incl. hip-hop. I´m a part of a colombian team right now - crazy people, visited their home, went to club, chatted a lot (as you probably predict, I´m a great listener so far). Before the lesson we attended some African dance classes, it was really interesting, Maurizio (the professor) was filming all of this, so I hope movies will be available soon. I´m dancing almost every day this week, so...:)

Traffic in the hostel is getting higher right now - many people come and go. Anyway I met a Canadian girl who has been travelling for entire year, also volunteering in Peru. I have a feeling of incoming interesting discussion:)

Saludos!
Adam

p.s.Colombian kitchen - mostly based on chicken&rice (talk about restaurants in the neighbourhood), although Calvin shew me a great district of seafood over here:) really looking forward to Cartagena and the rest of Pacific coast.
p.s.2. colombian culture of partying - they are open minded, smile all the time, have crazy ideas, no limits, they are fantastic dancers...CRAZY! I really enjoy it!:)
p.s.3.If i can give you a piece of advice regarding travelling to South America (Colombia): take Visa and Mastecard (sometimes there are problems with one of the systems), negotiate all the prices in advance, be careful - it´s not as dangerous as we think about it, but it´s better to watch out, especially when going alone or with another gringo/extranjero late in the evening/night. The best and safest way is to get to know and go out with a local team, besides it´s a great fun, possibility to gather some cultural insights and improve your Spanish:)