Well, these past few days have been a riot.  Pretty overwhelming.  A few memorable incidents:

• Flat tire
• A 4-5 hour night of sleep
• Visiting my Compassion child
• Being welcomed by Valentina's church family and meeting her immediate family
• Having to guess which of 4 girls was Valentina - blindfolded!!! (Score.)
• Being able to be a part of Valentina's first taxi ride (I think) and first trip to the mall
• Staying with a wonderful host family in Barranquilla and eating delicious food
• Flying solo from city to city
• Having a 6-hour delay in the Barranquilla airport
• Meeting a lovely woman and speaking Spanish for a few hours or so during the wait (for our flight)
• Almost not having a ride home from the airport (this pushed my nerves a little over the edge after the delay and beginning to run out of phone minutes and all)
• Realizing that Colombia seems similar to Mexico, but if I express this to Colombianos, they often disagree
• Being told I have a lovely voice and pure accent while speaking Spanish (woot!)
• Being told I seem very self-sufficient and should have no trouble in Bogota (interesting)
• Realizing the temperature in Bogota is excelente when compared to that of Barranquilla

I know this isn't a terribly engaging blog post, but it's one o'clock in the morning and I want to sleep.  If you want to know more let me know :)

Laura