Oye marica, no me gringas!!!

ok ,back in town now!

first of it all: mi spacebuttom is broken and im to lazy to press it reallyhard all during the writing: so here is my apology :)

i arrived a while ago insanta marta and started little trips from there to the surrounding natural parcs at the coast an in the mountains of the sierra nevada de santa marta and i really really like it here.

hola amigos: habia llegadoasanta marta en el norte de colombia hace como 2 semanas y louso como base para hacer viajes pecquenias en la costa y la montana de la sierra de la santa marta. esta super bacano por aqui :)

ah: el button para hacer un pecenioespacio entre los palabras es un poco roto. losiento pro esto ;)

but i had to realize that there are many people around here that have quite some different conception about the reasons whyone should tavel to colombia: i guess you see where this is going:

you sign in to the hostel: and the owner says: shower is at the left side, there is free breakfest between 9 and 11,the internet is about 1500 pesos per hour.... (selfsatisfied friendly look) ...can i help you with something else??....

so it actually turns out that good old mary johanna isnt that much more than coka, and i suggestthat the free delivery is even faster than if one would order a pizza ( and the pizza is not good here at all! )

so the good thing is: 3 euro 50 for a gramm of nice clean cocacolombia might sound temptating to some... but you jsuthave a nother lookout on the steet but one closer to the fellow traveller how sits in the hostel lounge ( since about 3 month now) and he does not look that good any more.

so to make the long story short: at the coast, cokeis all over the place and the good afternoon line seemsasnormalas the radler in the german beergarden but whereas the frequent visitors of the beegradden might get a huge beerbelly, the wasted travelbumbs at santa marta and cartagena look way more fucked than anbody else!!

but backto the nice things:

i went to the ciudad perdida last week, and archeological site of the anchestors of the kogi tribes in the sierra nevada de santa marta... one could problaly imagin it the esiest by comparing it to machu pichu:

thake all the gringos away and leave onlyabout 20 a day= brake down the walls and make the site and arrangment of about an 90 stonecircels on the ground where in the past woooden houses where located and later on gravesites,all that in the middle of lush rainforrests, ion top of an mountai that one reaches after clmbing a 2300 stepss... :)

so: its quite knorke up there!

but once agian the contovercial: the place is located an an area wich is quite close to farc-land: close meens in that case about a fifty kilomerters away in the jungle.

the last time somebody was kidnapped there was in 2003, and considering thatthere aretours going everyday,it its comparable save. but the thing is that it feels realywired, when you are havinga good time with friends in the jungle, trekking up the mountains and realize that to make the tourism safe,wich brings heeps of money to the region, the istalled about a few hundred soldiers along the way and in the mountains and every once in a while, chatting about the the last hangover from the weekend, you pass a checkopint with about 10 soldiers, machine gung gently leaning again the trees, greeting friendly(and smoking a joint..).

all jsut here to make your journey as enjoyable as poslible..and it this would not be enough:; for an aditional 20 000 pesos your guideextends the tour with a visit of a coca fabric in the woods...

..but irealize im getting in to it again.... anyway: its abeatiful,breathtakin site.

so is parque tairona and antional parque along the coastline. i stayded the for a while wiht friends while chilling out frothe busysanta marta for a while reading garcia marquez,swimming in the green clear see, eating freshfish and enjoiing maracuyajuce... perfect!!

listo!

hey guyz!

Frohes, neues Jahr, feliz año nuevo, happy New Year!

i hope you are all doing great and all the best wishes for 2008, that you are allways in good company, have a lots of good luck and mucho buena onda!

i finally started travelling now!

after a hard but good end of 2007 with nice grades at school, interesting work and contact to great people that do great work around buenos aires to make it a better place.

First, there is my profesora Estela Camarota, de la UBA/FCE who theached me Dirrecion General ( something like General Management, but in the broadest sence possible...more like lessons for real live, then neoliberal Duennschiss).

If you ever plan on an exchange in Buenos Aires, do this course, even if you are not studiing bussines or economics, give it a try, its worth it!!

Its not only that she was well able to make a german with poor spanish able to unterstand the different ideas of concepcion del mundo y paradigmas (wish was acutally reason why i named the page the way it is named!)

but also that she is a great person per se.

as most students here are doing dirrecion general as their last course she gave them all something that we like to call den letzen schliff...well something like an ultimate finnish so people are made able to use all there economical knowledge in an responsilbe way.

the best was actually the last lesson, something that i did know and everybody somehow might now.. but you cannot repeat it often enough: there is allways something you have to give ,and even if its just a free hug or a bit time to listen to someone who needs some attetion: it makes the world a better place

she also introduced us to margarita, a lovely woman who cares for the cartoneros ,the people ,moslty kids who are collecting the paper and boxes from the rubbish of the buenos aires people to sell it for a few cents..
if you wanna read abit about here project>
http://www.margaritabarrientos.org.ar/ there you go!

actually there where many social proekts with good ideas going on, and if you realize how many there are in total, ytou kinf of realize to, that the suffering and malpractice must be so enourmous cause besides all these good peoel working their ass off, there is still little to se on improvment... to bad...

but i do not wanna be pesimistic and therefore link you to a few more or the promising stuff going on around the billas and sourroundings of buenos aires<

so during the next weeks i will add a few more inspiring projects
cu around