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Travel Blogs from Barranquilla
Caribbean past times: Carnaval
... and burial of Joselito. There were lots of 'dead' bodies knocking back the rum. And lots of 'priests' with monkey mask heads.
(After Carnaval, we took a short break for recuperation and to wash the jungle out of Pamplemoose's clothes, back in Cartagena. As a sharp reminder that carnaval is supposed to mark the beginning of Lent, the streets here werefull of people with small grey crosses marked on their foreheads, for Ash Wednesday.)
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Controlar emociones
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Rumba en Baranquilla
... je n'ai jamais été aussi bien accueillie et prise en charge que par cette famille, qui m'a vraiment traitée comme une Princesse et m'a fait découvrir la vie de la Costa, aussi bien de jour comme de nuit .
Parler espagnol a été compliqué surtout qu'ils parlent ici très vite et avec leur propre dialecte, mais je m'accroche. On a bien parlé du pays et il ...
Pre-conference affairs
... The mall was something to note...larger and nicer than most i have seen in the States.
I came home for the evening and found out that my host family had also been at the same mall at the same time, but we didn’t run into each other. If only we had, I could have just hung out with them there.
Friday morning we went to a medical supply manufacturer. I struggled with this ...
Baranqueeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yaaaaaaaa
... and cheaper than the merengue concert.
We arrived at the street party, everyone was dancing and the guy singing was really good. Later they picked people out of the audience from different cities and made them dance with each-other, a huge dance-off, Latin style. It was great to watch, they really know how to dance, and bloody love it. We danced too, our friend Dante, definitely hit his peak, and was doing a style of salsa I like to call drunken stumbling forward ...