Another Strange Day by Manuela Cardona Henao

Yesterday, I woke up early in the morning, and I went to the bathroom. Then when I left the bathroom, my parents and my sister were waiting for me in my room with some gifts on the bed and they turned on the Diomedez Diaz´s song. Inside the gift bags was a jacket and a green bag with a lot of chocolates.

After that, I left the house and I went to take classes until 12 noon. My friends gave me many sweets and gifts. At 12 noon, I left the university and I caught the bus to go home. There, my mom and my sister were waiting for me to go together to my grandmother´s house.

I called a taxi service because it was raining. When we arrived to my grandmother´s house, I realized that I dropped my wallet in the cab. My grandmother prepared a spectacular lunch. Minutes before that, they were going to sing a birthday song  to me, but my phone rang, and I received a call on my cell phone from a woman who told me that she found my wallet. She told me that we meet. At 4pm a friend accompany me to claim the wallet, and the woman who called me to give me the wallet looked like a man and she made us extremely confused. Her name is Alejandra. Then we went walking to my grandmother´s house when we all sang me a birthday song.

My day ended well. I was walking to my house and on the way I went to a friend´s house to say hello. When I got home, I read many documents because the next day I had final exams in the university.

CATTLE'S RUN - JUAN PABLO CASTAÑEDA

One time, I was on a school trip. It was on a big ranch with swimming pool, horses, some birds, cows, and bulls.

I was goofing with some friends when we arrived. Later, when we were swimming, one of them said, “Let’s walk around to check the zone!”

We accepted and followed him.  We were walking for around 15 minutes and my friend took a big branch maybe because he was worried about two guys we saw. We found a burn grass road trough trees and high grass at sides, and we thought for a moment and finally we decided to follow it.  Halfway we were looking for something interesting like snakes, scorpions, or even fruits; but we just found some hills to “climb”. Then we just started to “climb”

Almost 30 minutes later, we arrived to a paved road. In the other side of that road, we saw a bull looking at us while we were totally quiet. A friend said. “We need to go away but don’t run.” Then we run away and the bull just followed us. I fell at the left side on the high grass and the bull just continued. Thanks to God anyone ended hurt but actually it was a very scary experience.

The worst part definitely was that we didn't found the way to get back, and we had to walk without destiny.

We arrived to a big kind of yard while we were walking and that place was full of cattle. We felt the worst fear but we saw the pool around half a mile away and immediately we turned back and “climbed” again. In the way we saw the two guys again but they were just 2 employees  who said us how to return to the swimming pool.

Anecdote By Hugo Andres Muñoz H.

Last month, I was bringing my daughter to her house, when I was coming in the Vegas street my car broke down and I was in the mid of Street. I went to call the insurance company but the cellphone wasn’t charged, I look for the charger but I didn’t find it. I stayed for a three hour.

Finally came a traffic agent but his solution was bring my car to the transit, that solution was very bad, because I couldn’t pay for many expenses and I didn’t have it all weekend. I didn’t know to do. I was tell him that I had insurance company but I didn’t have to call.

Then I saw an old friend and I shouted his name, he asked me “what did you happen?”, I explained the situation and I asked for his cellphone while he lent me it, I called the insurance company. While came insurance company I was talking with my friend, we remember old things, after he invited me for the friends party and I went with him it and the bad moment change a good experience.

Franklin Cruz - MY FUN TRIP TO THE COFFEE REGIÓN OF COLOMBIA

Final Project: Franklin Cruz Quintero

MY FUN TRIP TO THE COFFEE REGIÓN OF COLOMBIA

In my last vacations I had really wanted to visit the coffee región of Colombia, then I made plans with my wife and a couple of friends to go for a walk. I want to share my experience because it was fun and I visited many spectacular places.

We leave the City Friday at midday, but there was heavy traffic in the city, then that delayed us a long journey. The idea was to arrive Friday to Manizales, know the city and sleep there. The next day we went to a place well knew in the coffee region called thermal “Santa Rosa de Cabal”, there you can enjoy spectacular thermal pools and a waterfall of cool clear water to cool off after the thermal bath.  At that moment, the world cup was taking place and Colombia and Uruguay were playing a match; it was fun to watch the game in this place because there were many people and the atmosphere was very lively and cheerful and as Colombia won the party was much better.

When we leave the thermal and the end of the afternoon we went to visit another town in the coffee región called Filandia, a small beautiful town coffee for its architecture and the kindness of the people, we had dinner there and enjoyed the evening.

The next day we went to visit another very touristy place called “Parque del Café” in Armenia, it´s a place for all tourists who visit the coffee region. In this park there are many games and there is also a very nice museum coffee where the whole process of coffee cultivation and production is explained.

After visiting the “Parque del Café” we had just a day's ride, which we would like to know the town of Salento, which is very knew for its handicrafts and the typical food of the village that is trout and fried plantain.

It was a very fun ride because we visited many special places and keep many beautiful memories of each place we visited.

Thanks.

My travel from Colombia to Brazil with my big sister by Manuela Mesa

My travel began one day on January, while we stayed on the airport 2 hours for the flight. When we finally arrived to Brazil, we did one row for 1 hours almost; but finally stayed in BRAZIL.

In that travel happened many things, memories we never forgot. One day, we went from Rio de Janeiro to Ilha Grande. I only had in my bag, a bathing suit, sandals, a towel, tothpaste, a toothbrush and my sunglasses, only these for 3 days. 

The first day, we ate in a little restaurant from the place, while around for us to walked people from all word. The second day, we traveled in a boat around the island; I sat in the boat with my sister, while I was seeing the beautiful Brazilian island. When I was in the beach, My sister was swimming in the sea with other peoples. The third day, me and Laura walked in the island, when one Chile couple approached us for talk.

That day we returned to Rio de Janeiro, after 3 days of pure happiness. 

In that days, coming the carnival of Rio de Janeiro, for this all citizens prepared your lives because the carnival is soon.  Laura and I went to Sambodromo for pre-carnival with  Brazilian people, while the middle of Sambodromo the magic happened; front of us the parade passed. The Brazilian people in this place were very friendly with us, share the beer and everything with the Colombian girl.

Unforgettable Vacation by Alexis Tobon

Many years ago I went to Dabeiba to my cousins' place to take a vacation. I was waiting for this moment to share with them. I was very happy because I was enjoying with my cousins once again. My cousin Mary and I got to the mountains where our uncle Darío lives when we saw a large, brown serpent that was crossing the way. Mary was very calm while I was very nervous because I never saw a serpent like it. After that, we arrived where our uncle lives and we were very happy staying with him. We talked about the past while we were eating a delicious lunch. My uncle showed me some photos while we were walking around the mountains. Next, we played cards while we were drinking some beers. We were very happy. We laughed and sang all the time. That night, we went to bed late. The following day, we had breakfast while we were planning to go to the river. Then we went to the river. There, people were sharing in family. They were bathing and playing in the water. We were enjoying the landscape and other things. After that, we cooked the lunch while the sun was shining. That day was wonderful because it is difficult do these kind of things in the city. After that, Mary and I returned to her home. When I was watching the news, Leo my cousin, invited me to drink liquor. I didn´t want to, when I saw a beautiful girl with him, so I decided to go out with them. We drank so much during all the night. Also, we danced while we were talking about love. Then I met a special girl. Her name is Margarita. She told me about her family, job, education, experiences while I was listening. Next, we promised to go to eat another day. So, I drank so much that night, and then I lost some money for this reason. This vacation was unforgettable because I met another person and I had many experiences. At this moment Margarita and I go out every weekend. She is a good friend.