Day 3

Day 3 ---- Baranquilla,Columbia –Tuesday

Imagine having those phone telemarketers who call
everyday a billion times be real life people in your face. Well, over
here, you just walk on the side walk & get like 10 ppl trying to
sell you something! Goodness.

Anyways, last night everyone slept so much better
than the building before. But we moved apartments once again. This
time we are staying for awhile. Probably around 5 days. This apartment is huge & awesome! Here are some
pictures :

Me and Brian's room

I really liked that rug lol

Plus, Mom and Dad say it has water ;) Thats the best part hehe.
This morning we had to shower in cold water again :|
But, thankfully no more of that here. And so far, there are no advertiser salesmen on the street.

*later that day*

Today we met Martha, Vikcy, & Rita again. :D We haven't seen em since the airport. Tom. we all will hang out & maybe go to the mall.
I know we are planning to go to the beach sometime.
Well, I'll write tommorow!

- Giselle 2/14/06

Start fresh

Right, so I'll start fresh on here ^_^ Well the first post will be about my First day in Coloumbia! Here it is, it's from my journal i kept while i was there :P

Day 2 ---- Cartagena,Columbia – Monday

Yesterday in the plane I had a delicious dessert
^__^

But Yesterday was bad. The “hotel” was
an apartment place hence why they call em aparta-hotels. Anyways, we had to wait foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr only to come to have
to sleep in a room that was badd bad. Noone wanted to use the
blankets that the room came w/ so we used our towels :P

Buttons (my dog plushie) & a small towel were
the only things keeping me from freezing cuz of the darn aircondition
and windows. *Which btw, we think is the source of me getting
sick later on*

Skipping to today, This morning I showered in COLD
water, um , and I had to wash my hair aswell .... aii O_O”

Breakfast was awesome tho, and not to mention
cheap. I don't get why people say “not to mention” cuz
they mention it ... doesn't make sense BUT I'm off subject lol

Anyways, for breakfast I had a ham sandwhich w/
cheese, lettuce ,tomatoe & I think that is all. For drink I had
good ol' natural orange juice.

So let's see ... Most of the day we were just
looking for another place to stay just for tonight, we found a good
one :) Only thing is I dunno if there is hot water -_-;;

Anyways, at around 2:30 pm we left on a taxi to
eat lunch. Guess how much it cost? It cost $2 per plate! That's
cheap. We ate on the 2^nd floor. That stair case was soo
steep. When I was going up I hit my knee on the next step, that's how
steep it was, if that makes sense.

Anyways, the lunch was great. I had rice, salad,
ground beef, mash potatoes & and a drink called Coloumbiana. One
bad thing happened tho ... I spilled the soda on me -_-”
Atleast it was only on my shorts and it dried up by the time I was
finished eating :P

So moving on, bla bla bla happened (walking
mainly) and then we took a taxi for a tour all around Cartagena. Once
that was over we headed back to the aparta-hotel. After a little bit
we went out again. We took a horse cart ride around, yep, another
tour. When the ride was over we walked around. I saw the saddest
thing ... there was a little kid sleeping outside on the sidwalk and
all he has was a cardboard box he was using as a “sleepingbag”.
I've seen poor skinny dogs on the street, but a kid no older than 10
... poor kid.

So, that was my day. We are watching tv right now.
Things are soooo different here.

I keep waking up forgetting we aren't in the U.S.
It's hard to get used to speaking spanish at all times. Spanish is
meant to spoken from my mouth but English usually comes out ;P

--- Giselle 2/13/06

that was long enuff ;) I'll be writing each day in one post ^_^ Well, till later... cya