travels
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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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Paul Graham is an extremist, in a really good way
Paul Graham is an extremist, in a really good way “In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally.” Yet another find on PG’s long list of fantastic essays. I admire this guy so much. His written work is clear, logical, pulls interesting facts from diverse fields and delivers a punching conclusion. Best of all there’s…
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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…
Karolis Karalevicius 