After 1,5 month travelling through the west indies, the islands in the eastern carribean we are back in Bogota. The climate on this islands arround this time a year is with arround 25 degrees really perfect. There are also not too many mosquitos. Too good to be true almost – apart of the fact that you are on really small islands which can make you feel trapped. It’s more of a head thing and I only realised it beeing back on mainland. Maybe it’s also just through the people, time is kind of conserved here, it’s just a subtle feeling of beeing in another time with different rules. It’s hard to put it into words also because we only spend about a week on each island. The people are mostly very friendly but there is also this roughness to it, which is very exiting and also a bit scary. Also through this ‚everyone knows everyone‘ reality of island with only 70’000 people there is a special dynamic to it, it lacks the anonymity of a big city like Bogota.

Bogota with arround the population of Switzerland has everything to offer: Art, culture, food, every kind of subculture. There is only one catch: It’s on 2600 something meters and at night it’s arround five degrees. It’s mostly cloudy and rainy and they usually don’t have heating! At daytime it’s arround 17 degrees all year round.

I decided to finally give my spanish a serious boost and to do some intensive classes for three weeks. So after serious chilling for six month i have to get up now everyday before eight, have a semi warm shower, and walk my twenty minutes through Chapinero. On the way I usually grab a fresh squized orange juice (66 cents) and have a local breakfast (typically with a soup with potatoes and a ugly piece of pork, eggs, a piece of bread and coffee – 2 dollars). I then sit in class with four other students till one o clock. On the way home I grab a perro caliente, an arepa or empanada, arround 1,5 dollars. At home I fall into bed and normally fall asleep totally exhausted right away. Later I do my homework and go for dinner. After that I go back to bed, cause I need to get up the next morning again. First time having a serious routine in a long time…

It’s nice beeing up so early in the morning and beeing part of the crowd with a task at hand. Beeing part of the system is very comforting! Maybe I am a herd animal after all. My innovative Swiss friend from school bought three heatings (I would never have thought of such a simple solution) and sold me one for 40 US. Great deal, and so much more life quality! Not having to wear a sweater in bed is great.

It’s semana santa and tomorrow, Wednesday, is the last day of school for this week. Finally a few days off of school. A long weekend coming up, yay!