Emboskada

This time, I want to introduce you to a really great band: Emboskada. One sunday afternoon, Adriana suddenly asked me, whether I want to join her on this gig with many different bands. I never regretted going there, because the whole gig was great. There were many bands, who showed their talent. But probably the best band was the one of David.


This is Emboskada in full action, when we saw them for the first time. The atmosphere was incredible. The music is awesome and I am waiting now for the first CD to come.


This is a very special picture. Adriana and me are listening to and enjoying the music of Emboskada. You can see David in full action in the background. ;)


Emboskada in action the second time. This was just a few days later in a different place. What a great music!


Adriana, David and me.


Well... it was the 23rd of december. So, of course Christmas was a topic.

People

Here are some of the people in Bogotá. This is just a small collection and doesn't go in the order of who I like more or less. :)


This is Lu Lin, one of the cutest and nicest people here.


With Miguel. Here I am bravely drinking Aguardiente, the national alcoholic drink of Colombia.


With Esteban and Charlie in T.G.I. Friday.


Julian, Esteban, and me.


With Martin and Matthias in La Candelaria.


Another case of christmas decoration. With Martin and Matthias.


This is Manolo! I live with him. :D


Pablo and Laura. My apprentices. We were about to prepare some Pizza. :)


With some of my apprentices: Paula, Laura, me, Luis.


National Planning Meeting with AIESEC EAN!


Again LC EAN!


Well, this is obviously me. This is at the National Planning Meeting of AIESEC.


Here I am in our branch 98 with my dear Paola. I love her! She is also known as the sponge, but she isn't a sponge anymore.


Adriana, me and Paola in the backyard of the branch 116. We just finished a great meal. :D


Pablito! Pablo is from Brasil and we work in tthe same branch of the company.


Pablo, Georgie and me.

Christmas lights in Colombia

A very peculiar thing here in Colombia is the christmas decoration. It is all with lights in all kind of colors. They blink, the change color, they are a lot. I think, they are beautiful but they don't make me feel like christmas at all. On the "día de la velitas" (day of the candles), we went to la Candelaria to see the lights. But not only there, you can see the lights. They are everywhere!


Plaza Simon Bolivar with the giant christmas tree.


A church.


Lu Lin and I were hoping for some christmas presents, but nothing.... ;(


Flowers on and around the christmas tree... why not? They even use butterflies. They would freeze in Germany, though...


Miguel and me in between the lights.


In Café de la ventana in Candelaria (the historical center of Bogotá). Especially Camilo seems to be really happy!


Decorating Zona T - the party zone.


In a park with Matthias and Martin.


Another park with even more colors and blinky lights. You can feel like in a disco!


In Andino, a really cool shopping mall. I am holding my christmas present from the company in my hands: A six pack of beer.


With Adriana.


Apparently, also mammoths can be part of the christmas decoration in Bogotá.

Andres Carne de Res

This is maybe the greatest bar-restaurant ever! It is close to my place in an area, which is called "Zona Rosa". ;) There are 4 floors from which you can decide, where you want to be. Lowest is hell, then comes earth, followed by purgatory and heaven. We chose purgatory... :D


This is outside of Andres Carne de Res. Believe it or not, the band plays outside.


The table with all this tasty and yummy stuff! I had a maracuya juice with milk. Sooo good! And we got all this fruits and stuff!


I want to introduce you to Miss "Bienvenido a la Tierrita" and Miss "Que te vaya bién" (Georgie). Crowns for the princesses all inclusive. We also got necklaces and chocolate. Maybe the waiter liked us. ;)


We even found some new friends in Andres D.C. They are sisters and we spent some really good time with them. At first they were a bit shy...


This is the sister, I had the best connection with. Right on this picture, we were planning a pyjama party.


Also Camilo had some good fun with the girls.


Another funny fellow.


Emptied the juices to the very last drop!


When we came the second time to Andres D.C. we got new company. Spacy horses with there christmassy horsemen.

Monserrate

A month or two ago, we went to visit Monserrate, a mountain which dominates the city center of Bogotá. On the top of the mountain you can find a church, which functions as a pilgrim destination. From up there, you have a great view about a part of Bogotá. Actually we wanted to climb up there, but as the way was closed for construction, we had to take the funicular.


The wonderful view on Bogotá from the funicular.


We even had some visitors from Germany - Matthias und Martin.


All the buildings up there were made from white stone. It is really beautiful.


More of the view.


I think, this picture speaks for itself.


Haha, we had to scare a security guard, so that he takes this picture of us.

Finally Bogotá

I am in Bogotá for already 3 months now and didn't write anything about it yet. I want to change that, of course. ;) So, let me introduce you to Colombia's capital... the city where I spend 6 months in a traineeship, working as a German advisor.
Here are some pictures:




Those are the streets that I see every day, when I walk to my work in the morning. Huge streets and a lot of cars everywhere. And the city also doesn't lack people, of course.


This is right next to the house, where I live. It has a lovely view onto the mountains. Isn't it nice? And it is really close to the most important party area of Bogotá. Haha!


In Bogotá you can find a very interesting mixture of old and new buildings. Very nice!


This is me fitting into the city.


This street is one of the bigger ones here. It is called Calle 80 and also gives us a wonderful view on the mountains. Before I moved to the place, where I live now, I had to go all along this street by bus to get home. And it is a long street...



Following legends, this is the place, where Bogotá was founded. But unfortunately they say that about other places as well... ;)

More places and people

As I already told you in another blog entry, we had a party for Gosia, as she was leaving some days later. I got some more pictures and, of course, I want to share them with you.

We started the Good-Bye Party at "La bebe", where we had something to drink and some dancing. We stayed there until maybe 10p.m.

Afterwards we went to Gosia's place, where the AIESECers from Navodari partied longer. The party was everything for me: frustrating, funny, boring, exciting, full of good and bad things.

These are Valy and Poto. They are the male part of AIESEC Navodari, both crazy and amiable. As it was a good bye for a Polish girl, the Polish wodka wasn't missing. Don't the boys look very happy with the bottles?


Upside down... I want to turn the whole thing upside down. I'll find the things they say just can't be found...


This is a riddle. I want you to find the forth person in this picture.


This was the team in the end. From left to right: Valy, Magda, Claudia, Me, Gosia, Poto.

Last week on wednesday, we wanted to spent a nice evening with Gosia. We met her at Tomis Mall and went for a really good Shaworma at Cin-Cin (where I also had y very first Shaworma). There we met Iulian, a guy from AIESEC. It was so great to have a last evening in such a small round just with 4 people. This is always better to have an intense good-bye with people, and this really was a special good-bye. We bought a bottle of wine after our dinner and went to the beach. docens of steps led down to the beach and somewhere in between we sat down on a little wall, had a fantastic view over the sea and talked to each other. I felt very melancholic at one point of time. The whole sight had something really romantic...
But let me just shortly tell, what happened as well:

This is Iulian. Actually he is a really nice guy, but this evening he was really bad behaving, or at least a bit carefree. When we went to the beach, we had this bottle of wine which we emptied. Gosia put a message in this bottle and wanted to throw it into the sea. Therefore, we went to something like a quayside at the beach. It was a nice way from asphalt in the past, but now all the surface of the quay is broken and huge pieces loom out of the sea. Magda, Gosia and Iulian didn't have any problems to pass these pieces, but I wore high heels, as I didn't know that the plan will be to go to the beach. Thus, I needed help form the other, which they also provided. But at one point Iulian became really carefree. He just grabbed me from the front, held tight to me and jumped from rock to rock. As he couldn't see anything anymore, he stumbled and we both fell. Iulian had a wet foot (he was suddenly standing in the sea) and I had a scraped leg.
The worst thing was then that we suddenly realized the time. It was 20min to 11p.m. and the last bus to Navodari was about to go at 11p.m. from the main station. This meant: running! Over the sand, up the stairs (there were many stairs leading down to the beach) and to the next cab. With a newly wounded leg, this was definitely not so nice. But in the end, everything was still fine. :)


Three girls in the mountains? No. This is the quayside, I was already talking about.

Preparing for the global Village. Yesterday we had a Global Village at Traian High School together with the kids. That meant, we also had to prepare some food to show how we eat in our countries. Therefore, we went shopping on saturday right after the trainings in the high school and afterwards to Narcis' place to prepare all the food. We had a fun time doing this.

I'd call this a very well-balanced meal.


Look! A bathtub full of cabbage. It is just hidden under a thin layer of pasta... :)


Woah!! Finished with cooking! We prepared six meals in about 5 hours! As we could only use two hot plates at a time, it took ages until everything was done. But I'd say it was worth it! We had: Two polish dishes (Faworki - cookies, and sth. from cabbage, pasta and sausage), two Taiwanese dishes (a soup and baked chicken), and two German dishes (Kartoffelsalat - potatoe salad, and Fleischklopse - meat balls).
From left to right you can see: Me, Madeleina, Polly, Narcis, Flo, Magda



The Global Village is about to start. The students are waiting for the presentations to come. Actually there should have been much more students, as there are 78 subscribed for the program.



Sitting and watching the presentations. From left to right: Mihaela, (don't remember her name), me, Flo (my trainee buddy), Elena (a student), Ramona (OCP of the project).


The country presentations. All in all we had 9 presentations, with Polly (Taiwan), Magda (Poland) and me (Germany), and 6 groups of students for the six regions of Romania. I unfortunately don't remember, which region of Romania these guys presented, but the clothing is great! Many students really had cool traditional clothing for the presentations. I liked that very much.


Magda and me with one of our students. :)


Narcis and me after the Global Village has ended. She is a really cute girl. I like her very much! We were both really exhausted, as the cooking took us so long the last day, but you can also see that we are more than happy, that another exhausting event was finally finished.


Woah!!! I found a Trabbi! And what a Trabbi! I'd say, Germany is never very far away from you. This jewel I found in Navodari not far from where I stay these days.