Week 11

Colombia is very fun and I love it here. :-) I have amazing friends and family. I am always going new places and trying new things. My Spanish is also much better than when I arrived and I can understand most of what people say. 

Colombia es muy chevere y me encanta aqui. :-) Tengo unos amigos y una familia increible. Yo siempre estoy yendo a lugares y probando cosas nuevas. Mi español es mucho mejor ahora de cuando llegue y puedo entender la mayoria de cosas que las personas dicen.

Yesterday my family and I went to Burukuka (a restaurant over looking  Rodadero and the Ocean)

Ayer mi familia y yo fuimos a Burukuka.

Today my family and I went to Taganga.

Hoy mi familia y yo fuimos a Taganga.

Rotary Orientation 

District 4271 

Being welcomed at the airport with exchange students

(from USA, South Africa, Germany, Brazil, and France)

First meal with the exchange students

Exchanging pins

A river

Chinacota with the exchange students

The 18th of September 2013

I got excepted into the University of Wisconsin Stout today!!!! 

That is my first choice of colleges :-)

Now I know what I'll be doing next year!!! 

So this is now the background on my lap top :-)

Week 5 and 6

Colombia is a lot of fun. I have a lot friends, and pretty much no free time. So I'll be quick, my host Family is amazing and so are my friends.

I got my first manicure and pedicure ever  (it only cost like  $8 USD) with Alexandra and her host sister Gaby

Soccer game Colombia vs. Ecuador, Colombia won 1-0 

 Me and my host mom 

Me and my host sister Maria Ines

Me and my host dad 

After school waiting to get picked up with Alexandra (the exchange student from Germany) and Maria Ines

Yellow, blue, and red like the Colombian flag.

Watching the game with Maria Ines, Alexandra, and Gaby (Alexandra's host sister)

Watching soccer here is a lot like a bunch of guys watching football

Karaoke

Week 3 and 4

Colombia is amazing I love it here. I'm always trying new things and meeting new people. I am learning more Spanish everyday. 

The whole rotary club of Santa Marta and the Governor of district 4271 went on a Chiva. Which is a bus that plays music and you dance while it is driving. It was super fun!

This is the governor of my district, the other exchange student from Germany, and me. 

Alexandra and I getting the rotary club of Santa Marta's flags

 My little host cousins. Ages 8, 4 and 2

I was in the news paper!

Week Two

Rotary meeting with the other exchange student from Germany

First time shopping with the other exchange student in my town

The Caribbean

My new home, Santa Marta

Birthday Party

The bus ride to Cartagena

Mud Volcano

Where they get salt from the ocean water "Galerazamba"

Most of my class in Cartagena

My new family!