Love

June 21 – June 27

     This was a very important week in the United States and June 26, 2015, will likely go down in history. Rarely do I comment on US news here, and I won’t really comment this time, either, except to say that, on Friday, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. National landmarks were lit with rainbow lights and people celebrated across the country. Then, on Saturday, two of my friends back home were married. And, of course, June 21, was Father’s Day. Happy Father’s Day, Daddy! Regardless of anyone’s political views, what a beautiful week this has been for love.

- Sometimes, buses or taxis or motorcycles just stop running. That usually means there’s some sort of transportation strike. Luckily, multiple types of transportation don’t usually strike at the same time, so you’ll almost always have a way to get places. Monday, there was a bus strike (or, at least, I assume so, since there were no buses running), so I walked to school – it was a lovely walk and the streets weren’t as busy as usual, so that was nice, too.

- I watched a movie called, The Next Three Days, which was awesome and extremely suspenseful. It was filmed mostly in Pittsburgh, the city closest to where I live in the United States. Without giving away the plotline, toward the end of the movie, the family whose perspective we followed fled to Venezuela, which I thought looked a lot like the Coast of Colombia. I watched the credits and was thrilled to learn that they were actually in Cartagena and Taganga, Colombia. Pittsburgh and the Colombian Caribbean Coast – my home and my new home. What an awesome coincidence.

- Forms, forms, so many forms. I filled out my vacation request form for Christmas and did my VRF this week. Try to have forms, especially vacation forms, filled out as far in advance as possible, especially since you need to have your time approved before you buy plane tickets!

- “Es amor, es amor, es amor, es amor, es amor.” ~ Somos Dos, Bomba Estéreo