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Carnaval kick-off, more students
January 20, 2014
The Barranquilla Carnaval got started this past weekend. The Carnaval Queen opened the celebrations with a speech and there was a concert. The crowd was huge, and I mean HUGE! My friend Vivi and I went down there to see the festivities, it was late, after 11pm when we headed there. She didn't want to go, but did so with me. I was hoping to get somewhat close to the stage to see the bands, but that was a hopeless task.
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New Year 2014
January 8, 2014
I'm back. I should have written sooner but have been busy, which is a good thing. So I last left you with mentioning about the english presentations here at work. The presentation day came and people were busy practicing and discussing what they were doing for their own presentation. There were a couple people who did karaoki, and a couple who did a family tree presentation.
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Christmas and company parties
December 28, 2013
The photo album is working now, yay! Be sure to check it out.
I didn't do a very good job of keeping track of things to write about, so I am just going from what I can remember this time.
Lets see, Kal Tire had a party at a place called Zunilda (http://www.villazunilda.com/). It was very nice. I have some pics in the Barranquilla photo album. We had a very nice lunch, dancing, swimming for the kids, paddle boats on the pond.
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Moved into my new apartment!
December 9, 2013
I got moved in to my new apartment today! Yay! It's an old apartment but I don't care, it's mine. And it's an actual apartment, not a storage room trying to be an apartment. And the landlord lowered the rent from $350.000 COP per month to $300.000 COP. (COP is Colombian Pesos. Just a bit under 2000 COP per dollar. So my rent is just a bit under $150 US per month. Notice the "$" is also the Peso sign, not just dollars.)
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Land of the free, and another apartment opportunity
December 4, 2013
Nov 28th, Thanksgiving, here at Kal Tire we had a thanksgiving lunch - the company signed a very big contract with a multinational mining company. So everyone here went to a restaurant for lunch. It was very nice, a big fancy restaurant called Las Vegas.
Then one day when I was riding the bus to work another man gets on and instead of sitting down he stood at the front and started preaching to the riders on the bus.
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