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Land of the free, and another apartment opportunity
December 4, 2013
Nov 28th, Thanksgiving, here at Kal Tire we had a thanksgiving lunch - the company signed a very big contract with a multinational mining company. So everyone here went to a restaurant for lunch. It was very nice, a big fancy restaurant called Las Vegas.
Then one day when I was riding the bus to work another man gets on and instead of sitting down he stood at the front and started preaching to the riders on the bus.
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Live music (finally!), job and apartment updates
November 24, 2013
Wednesday the 13th - This week I actually found a band. A live band playing music at a party. It was probably someone's birthday party, maybe anniversary, I don't know, it was just one family apparently. But they had a band playing a style of music called Vallanato. This is the first live band I have come across in this city. One thing I miss here is live music. Barranquilla has virtually no live music, very few bands, no street musicians.
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Been Quiet
October 13, 2013
Hi, it's been a quiet two weeks since my last update. Last week was a school vacation week. I have only 3 lessons last week. My students were either travelling for business or taking a vacation week with their families. This next week should be back on track with a regular schedule.
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More classes
September 29, 2013
First of all, my computer has been dead due to a dead battery, due to a dead charger/ac adapter. I still have not had enough money to buy another adapter so am borrowing one. Hopefully soon I will have enough to buy an adapter/charger. I am quite surprised by the lack of HP computers and adapters/chargers here. Seems most laptops are not HP but Lenovo or other brands.
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More students, Yay!
September 9, 2013
This past week a friend of mine, or more accuratly, my girlfriend, Belkis, helped me with looking at some classifieds online for job listings for English teachers. There were a couple of promising ads so I created a CV letter and sent it off to them. The next day I got a phone call from one of the companies. They are called Starway and are a new company, a new branch of an existing company. So I got called in for an interview with Daniel and Alejandros.
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