Had a great weekend with Elizabeth and Victor Eduardo's family in Gambita! Getting up at 4.30 wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, but i made sure I was asleep for 10.30. Victor Eduardo on the other hand went to a friend's birthday party and got in at 2.30, how he got up at 5am I have no idea! Elizabeth's brother, who was driving us, arrived and we had breakfast before setting off which was really nice after my week of bread rolls for breakfast! We had aromat...

Well, it's the end of the week and the week at the school "Colegio Integrado Eduardo Gamacho Gamba" was great, both very interesting and rewarding. I think that both the teachers and pupils really appreciated the opportunity to speak to a native speaker and they were able to find out things about England, etc whilst I was able to have contact with local people, which was something I was hoping I'd be able to do in this trip (and hope possibilities will ...

Following my unexpected visit to the colegio in Curití I've spent the last 2 days working with pupils in English lessons.I originally only planned to go yesterday but I'll be going at least Monday to Wednesday, possibly up to Friday! By pure coincidence yesterday was the first day back of the new school year in England so whilst my teacher friends back home were getting up to go in for the first day I was getting up to go to lessons here (if we forget the 6 hour...

Nothing much to report for yesterday, I had a pretty lazy day: I phoned or skyped family :-), looked through my photos, uploaded photos to Facebook, chatted with friends on FB, had a nice lunch at la Mana restaurant again, sat in San Gil's square 'parque la Libertad'..... On to today- Woke up at 7 so I could get the bus early to get to Barichara- got the 8am bus, having picked up a couple of things from a bakery for breakfast. The road by the market area was pac...

Friday 2nd September- Curiti (visited from San Gil) This morning I'd planned to visit the towns of Barichara and Guane. Originally I'd planned to stay there but since I'd heard accommodation was generally more expensive there I decided to stay in San Gil and do it as a day trip. Before going to have breakfast with Constance and Guillaume I was making a note of bus times etc and decided that if I was to try and do the walk between Barichara and Guane it would be ...