One Man’s Walk through life

Bogota

On my second day here, I feel a little better about things. Columbia is not such a scary place, or rather, whether or not it is, it is also a place like any other. There is a festival, La Festival Iberoamericano del Teatro, that has many plays and shows that I’d like to check out today.
I met a Brazilian named Ary yesterday, while I was trying to checkin to the Platypus. Turned out they’d given my room away when I hadn’t come in the previous night (because of my flight) So we decided to room together for the sake of keeping costs down and found a double elsewhere. He’s a doctor in his own country, and his spanish is good for never having taken a Spanish course. It’s good to talk to someone soley in Spanish. He’s leaving today, though so, I’m going to try the Platypus again. It seems a very cool place. They have a little cafe w/ trance playing and internet, which is nice. Plus the woman who was manning the office was very nice. She actually called like 10 hotels to find us a room before we left.
My plan of staying here a year depends on a budget of about $1,000 dollars a month, which works out to about $25 a day – including travel w/in the continent. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to keep it up, but at least here in Columbia I think it’s possible. I’m lodging for about $6/night if I can get into the Platypus.
I plan to write a lot while I’m down here. So I apologize to all of you if I start becoming verbose, but hopefully if I keep this up, my writing will also become better as I go. It seems that internet access will be doable, but I’m not sure about the speed, so I’m a bit concerned about taking pictures. Anyway, I’m off to check out the Platypus.