Dame tu Lengua :P

Dame tu lengua. Give me your language. Or more literally, 'Give me your tongue'. That was the name of an event I went to with my school. It was a mix of an artisans bazaar, an art exhibition, live music, and a club inside a small bar in downtown Bogota. Here I had some good food ( I ordered a Colombian hot dog, but Colombians being Colombians, i got to try a bit of everything :) ), and shared some laughs with the staffers of Nueva Lengua.

Stumble Upon 3: There's a Mall Here?

Since the last post was small I decided to put up two today :)

And we've done it again, folks! Beth and I were heading to a mall called Unicentro and took the wrong Transmilenio Bus. Being tired from the earlier activities of that day we got off the buss and looked around a station called Niza-Calle127. I have been here a couple times before but somehow managed to not take notice of the gigantic mall that was there. We ran inside to find some food and bathrooms and also ended up getting a bit lost in the mall, but really you can't blame us.

La Bomba

Today at about 10:50AM there was a bombing about 5 streets from my school where I was at. I just wanted to write a quick update saying that I am alright since i have received a couple of worried emails making sure I was ok.  I am perfectly fine. I was on my coffee break at the school when we heard the bomb, but since  there are many university protests around our area we assumed it was just that. I did not find out until later that it was an actual bomb.

Stumble Upon 2: The Maze at Andino

Once again Beth and I have come across something we weren't expecting. We walked from our school to a mall called Andino ( or Atlantis maybe?) And by one of the entrances was a little maze for little kids to go though, nothing to big, but pretty cool none the less. So of course we had to go through this and we succeeded!! No biggie. :P

Museo de Botero

The same day that Beth and I stumbled upon the protests, we were enjoying a quiet afternoon walking around the Botero Museum. Fernando Botero was a Colombian painter and sculptor born in the early 1930´s, and many of his works can be seen in this museum. Ranging from drawings to paintings to statues, the museum holds more than 120 pieces of Botero´s as well as others.

Stumble Upon 1: Protests

My English friend Beth and I both tend to have a bad sense of direction, but because the streets are all numbered, we manage to find our way around easily enough. We also don´t often stray far from our comfort zone, so we´ve never been truly lost together. Something we´ve noticed that almost always happens when we are walking somewhere is we find something odd or interesting or just out of place. We´ve found things like people walking on tight ropes next to the road and random parks in the city.

Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá

A  few weeks ago, on one miserable, dismal, rainy day, Bogota held the Theater Festival like it always does every 2 years.  This year Groups from The States, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Japan, England and others came to perform. I didn't have the chance to see any actual performances,  but i have friends that went and said some were amazing and others not so much.