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Charles Wiegand

Roaming South America

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Good Riddance Trump

January 20, 2021

The Trumps finally leaving Washington DC.

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, Quindío, Colombia

November 10, 2020

Armenia.jpg I moved away from Barranquilla and now live in Armenia, Colombia Read More

Desiderata

October 11, 2020

Chip and Cheryl at our wedding - March 20, 1982

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

Images drawn by Edward Lear

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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Expectations

June 21, 2020

What should I expect when driving into that black hole? (Brewton Gulch Road, central Washington state, USA)

Expectations

Expect: 1. to consider probable or certain; to consider reasonable, due, or necessary; to consider bound in duty or obligated 2. to anticipate or look forward to the coming or occurrence of (Mirriam-Webster Dictionary)

What are you expectations? Do you expect certain things to happen? Do you expect certain people to do certain things? What happens when these expectations do not come to pass? How do you feel?

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Chip Wiegand

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chip at wiegand dot org

I used to teach English as a foreign language in Barranquilla, Colombia. Now I'm retired and traveling throughout South America.

I'm from Kennewick, Washington, USA. In my previous life, as I call it, I was an IT guy, systems administrator, computer tech, as well as a shipping/receiving guy and also worked as a merchandising guy in a RV/Camping store.

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