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view from an aeroplane window ( avianca) hace 8 años

A little tale, 5 years ago I found myself in Buga 40 minutes north on cali.The reason i was there was because I had a good friend in Tamworth a town close to birmingham in the "midlands" england, now I could go on and on , but anyway it came to pass suituations and all that stuff, I was at a loose end with a bit of cash and the aforementioned sort of ex thingy proposed a titilating proposal. she said with a tear in her eye and a small bit of dribble on her upper lip area, why not go to colombia and live with my parents ( she's colombian ha) I JUMPED at the idea with no reason or rhyme, SO , happy days, I made the necessary arrangements and damn the torpeodos of I skuttled. To be honest I was scared shittless, never ventured outside europe apart from an insignificant plunge into manhattan for 3 weeks in the protective womb of some good friends. Jesus joseph and mary, after witnessing people younger than me practising extreme yoga on the kin plane, like one legged hopscotch, deep vien thrombossis death by altitude purple rinse head banging, positions I only thought possible with extreme high tech grafics on the discovery channel, we ( the royal we) aproached cali about 9 is , and let me tell you for reasons of keeping my marriage together I am keeping this short.Get in my head now , remember first time in south america let alone locombia, all the news I had heard was death violence drugs mayhem kidnapping, savage brutal wizardry, my mind was peaking with ski masked devils with outrageous ( ok mexican moustaches) but maybe they are here as well , oh lord its all over now.Of course bogota to cali is internal so no english, avianca please help me, ha not a chance, but you know what, I reached inside and thought ,c'mon you loser, this is what you wanted an adventure of a life time youre past the point of no return, get a grip ok its new diferent, unusual, your stronger than you think , there are friendly people waiting for you, with a taxi , a house , a room , sanctuary, almost family, my inner me said relax, so I did and you know what I felt calm more self assured, so with my groing confidence I happened to glimps slightly to my right through the fukin massive window, 5 minutes from touch down in CALI ( ha drug barrons, cartels, I PINCHED myself really hard, because laid on a platter infront and sidways for me was infierno,........................ the whole kin world was on fire, for as far as I could see, ok I'm british wouldnt say boo to a goose, WHY the fuk is nobody else politely figiting, fuk this, ok got it ,.. its a joke Die hard 8, Im now frantically searching for bruce willis, c'mon tranquilo,......... looked again , THE TRUTH miles and miles of FIRE, I'm not talking KIN BBQ . Stiff upper lip, ha are you joking , I ,out of character asked ( sort of demanded) que pasa alla por fa, my response, aahh gringo( ha and can you believe 2 minutes from death I arrogantly replied, I'm not a kin gringo I m english, and when these words slipped helplessly from my desperate lips I thought, ha no time to think were going down, and somewhere in the tearful distance I heard an accordian and , no wait, a glimpse of hope, all around people clapping and singing , oohh you silly bugger all those fires were just sugar cane fields burninng the dead stuff

By la campiña on Jun 2, 2009, 00:24 in Friendly Talkzone.

la campiña (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jun 2, 2009, 00:30:

also on the wing of the plane I saw what can only be described as a troll giving me the finger, the audacity ha

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Zoltar says on Jun 2, 2009, 03:22:

WHAT ??

Just quoting some sensless stuff : " the whole kin world was on fire, for as far as I could see, ok I'm british wouldnt say boo to a goose, WHY the fuk is nobody else politely figiting, fuk this, ok got it ,.. its a joke Die hard 8, Im now frantically searching for bruce willis, c'mon tranquilo,......... looked again , THE TRUTH miles and miles of FIRE, I'm not talking KIN BBQ "

Reading this "rant" gave me headache

Zoltar

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la campiña (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jun 2, 2009, 06:09:

ha, its been to long, have people lost their sense of humor, let this be a lesson of what living in cali for 8 years can do to the grey matter.

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STEVENYCER says on Jun 2, 2009, 07:26:

Let's just all torture everyone and not use any paragraphs, let's not use spell check, and forget punctuations so we can ALL sound like blithering idiots.

Ree-dick-you-luss.

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la campiña (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jun 2, 2009, 07:37:

welcome to the club, and I teach English here, can you imagine the state of my students, however my first lesson to them is to learn how not to be pedantic ha, get on board stevie and enjoy the ride, live a little, have some fuuun jeje. ¿¿ oops ??

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la campiña (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jun 2, 2009, 08:50:

aaron that might be just a little too much ha, but thanks for the support. Most of my stories are observations of other peoples actions and of course I embellish them for fun, that's the beauty of running a hostel, I encounter some colourful people to say the least !

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RRAC says on Jun 2, 2009, 09:34:

Hey campiña .... A+ man! that was awesome, It fell like i had a rush while reading... (i'm not a newby any more yeaaaaeeeeee!!!!! )

Amar la disciplina es amar el saber, odiar la reprensión es ser ignorante

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drvannostren says on Jun 2, 2009, 16:01:

It read like a hunter s thompson thought...

No matter where you go, the Korean tour bus isn't far behind.

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la campiña (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jun 2, 2009, 16:09:

that probably is the greatest compliment I will ever receive GONZO

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lampltr says on Jun 3, 2009, 18:08:

la campiña, twas gittin' good....

Saw your quote; "I teach English here, can you imagine the state of my students...." I hope not British Ingles, tis not proper English jeje, just missin' wid ya!

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