While waiting to leave Colombia… ***updated with pictures

My first trip to South America was a great experience that would have been better only if Mark had been with me.

I was travelling with a group of other Seeds Facilitators which always included Serge (my colleague in DR Congo) and two gals who will be leading the new southern Africa program. Our fearless leaders were the current Colombia Seed Facilitators and one current Columbia Seeder who is soon to replace one of the facilitators here. Here are some pictures of us.

When we were in Bogotá, I stayed with Carolina, the Colombian facilitator. There was also an undergrad student from EMU who was staying with her. We spent three days in the MCC office here, and three days travelling to sites where the Seeders live and work. It has increased my understanding of the program exponentially!

Highs and lows of the week:

Lows:

- My flight out being cancelled and spending 16 hours waiting in the airport.

- Runny nose and sneezing a lot

- being confused between Spanish and French a lot when I tried to talk another language!

Highs:

- We took a tram up a mountain overlooking the city. There’s a lovely, old cathedral there, and I really enjoyed the coke I drank at the café at the top!

- A taxi ride home by myself one night with a driver who was interested in my work in Congo and wanted to practice his English. I felt confident travelling by myself and that is such a good feeling.

- A short walk between bus and taxi at dusk on our last night in the cool of Bogotá

- Hearing that our foster son is moving to a home he really enjoyed when he visited and will be going to the same school

Colombia is a lovely country. The rural areas feel a lot like Africa. I like that things are in Spanish instead of Afrikaans or Swahili or Hindi. I’m happy to be stretching my international travel and sleeping wherever muscle again.