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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Onto Bogota
Today is our last day in Medellin… tonight we fly onto Bogota where we will stay with Sofia and Alejo, in the house where Manuel used to live as a kid.
We’ve wrapped up the volunteer work, as you’ve probably read in the other postings this has been an amazing experience, and time has just flown by.
I passed my final Spanish test with a 4.6 (out of 5.. not bad eh!) and am now in the phase that my brain is starting to tune to Spanish before Japanese. When the kids ask me how to say something in Japanese I have a black out. haha.
Last weekend was a long weekend with holidays on Thursday and Monday. We joined Andres and Adriana and some of her family to the finca of a friend, in Guarne. Guarne is a small town about a 45-minute drive from Medellin. We had a relaxing stay, and the house and landscape were incredibly beautiful. Photos to follow…
Ah, and I finally got my chance to ride a horse for the very first time! I was a natural talent for the first 10 meters until the horse decided to take off and I almost got launched off his back. Thankfully I managed to stay seated though. Next time I’ll opt for a slow tred-only lesson first. 
Also last week Manuel had his eyes lasered. Not LASIK but a slightly different technique, because his corneas are on the thin end. All went well and Manuel’s eyes are healing as should, and as hoped for. After all: eye laser operation was invented and developed in this country!
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Every time I have a look at these pages I am amazed with all the two of you are doing. I remember how we discussed the plans during Lunch that Saturday already more than 6 weeks ago, but it feels like yesterday....
It sounds really like good fun and it pleases me to read that all is going so well.
Here “at home” we are just after Golden Week and all is getting normal again, we had some small shakes but for the rest you did not miss much.Regards Hans de Klein
b.t.w. what you have with Japanese I have with Spanish....
