travel
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¡oh Dios – after 3 days of spanish
Spanish language classes started on Monday @ Nueva Lengua, located in Chapinero ( a fairly nice area). First two days was a blast, I felt really good about my pronounciation and i was understanding 80-100% of what the teacher was lecturing. The idea here at the school (as it should be) is to completely avoid…
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end of day 3. brain dump.
so this will not be a thoughtful post, but more of a brain dump to make sure im not losing all these experiences im having here in Bogota during my first couple of days. 1. let’s start at the beginning. on wednesday early AM when i was at FLL checking in to JetBlue’s flight to…
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It’s not a destination, it’s a new way of seeing things
This Monday started with a rush to pack my remaining personal items from the apartment, put everything in the storage and in the evening head to SFO. This is what I call a “consolidated version of my material life” After a red-eye flight to Florida, I spent Tuesday hanging out with Felix and Martha-Maria. She…
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$270 to start a 6 month adventure
This has been a long time coming, but recently a sequence of events at work and in my personal life gave way for me to do something that I had been dreaming about for years – travel far, get immersed in an unfamiliar environment for an extended period of time (3+months) and see distant lands…
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Another reason to travel
I can list plenty of reasons why traveling is awesome, not the least of which is the excitment of adventure and the unseen. However there is one subtle reason that is not very apparent. I noticed recently that whether im flipping through a magazine or browsing online, i automatically gravitate and pay much more attention…
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StartupBus community is about to get much larger
Last February my friend Julie brought to my attention this article on TechCrunch about this 48-hour hackathon on a bus, known as StartupBus. Of course I signed up, as the idea passed my personal threshold of “crazy enough to fly across the country”. Within just a couple of weeks from signing up for the StartupBus 2010 I…
