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Visiting Valledupar, Colombia
February 1, 2021
Visiting Valledupar in northern Colombia
This week I am in the small city of Valledupar in northern Colombia. Valledupar is a city of about half-million people in the greater metropolitan area. It sits between the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Venezuela border. The city appears nice enough but my personal experience so far is that the people are not quite a friendly as in other cities and towns in Colombia. And I've been told over and over again to not go out walking alone because it's dangerous here. Well, I'm not going to sit in the hotel room all day every day simply because somebody says it dangerous.
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Good Riddance Trump
January 20, 2021
Finally, the day has come, and you are leaving the city you don't, and never, belonged in. Good riddance to you and your family. You were a pathetic, sorry excuse of a President. Now the entire world can breath a sigh of relief that you and your cronies are gone and out of the way of progress.
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Armenia, QuindÃo, Colombia
November 10, 2020
I moved away from Barranquilla and now live in Armenia, Colombia
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Desiderata
October 11, 2020
Everyone should read this life poem, and read it carefully. Think about each line. If you just brush over it you will miss the entire message, or all of its many messages. Who was the author? There no consensus on that, and it doesn't matter anyway. Just read it, think about it, learn from it.
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What's happening updates
July 7, 2020
If you are a returning visitor to my site you probably noticed I've updated my site. I also updated my Chip's English Help site. I hope you like the new design. Please feel free to leave comments on any of my blogs and other writings.
I also added a search box to make it easier to find anything I've written on any word you enter in the box.
Life during the pandemic - not very exciting, for sure. Like most people around the world I spend most of my time at home in my little studio apartment. It's not fun, for sure. I go out for a walk every day, sometimes just around the block, other days along the beach. I do take a bus into Barranquilla most days to do an English lesson with my one student. Yep, only one student. All the others quit because of the quarantine. Here in Colombia we're still living under the national quarantine, since March 24, if I remember correctly. We're supposed to go out only 1 day a week, and that depends on the last digit of a person's ID number. I go out most days and so far it hasn't been a problem and I can only hope that it continues that way.
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