rastapaul comments on A Normal Day
A normal day for me! I was born and raised in bogota, and Im currently married to an beautiful caribbean woman, who was born in the Beautiful Island of Old Providence (colombia).
I was raised High class, but never really got interested about social classes. I was raised to respect human condition, not phyisical attachments.
Now I live in bogota with my wife, we both work, and we are middle class. We live in a neighborhood called Prado Veraniego. Things are tough but there is a lot to wake up for!
Becky, my wife, wakes up at 4:55am, and so do I. She works as an English teacher from 6 to 3pm. I work for an american company as a marketing analyst. I wake up at 6:45 and I alwsy ride my bycicle to work (about 25 blocks). I spend the whole day in the office, just getting out for lunch at my parents' (about three blocks away from the office).
They have slowly accepted my relationship with my wife, specially my mother and her family. With my father things are different... its odd but he tells me he's a bit racist (after teaching me not to become one), but I guess its just a matter of time.
I talk to my wife about seven times a day over the phone, before going back to our house. That is the best part of the day. Living here is not hard.
We are very lucky, since we can afford a monthyl budget of $1.200.000 million pesos (about 540 US dollars), and it is not hard to live here. There is a lot to do. We love going to Video Pirate (we call it like that because the owners are pirates to surf the web and download the latest Box office hits, we algo go out and party every now and then. Some of our friends have a Disco, and we hang out there sometimes. its located in a very exclusive zone called Park 93. Its fun and the music is great, but we cant afford to go there every weekend.
After getting back from the office, we normally sit down and talk for a while, we cook together, sometimes we play playstationII, or we just watch the tube.
WE live happy here, but just becasue we know that there is a etter future waiting for us: one in which clothes are not essential, where we will be able to live with a tremendous peace. Here in Bogota we are ssafe, and its not as most people describe it, specially when they have not lived here. Bogota is a very safe city, where there is a lot to do, and lots of places to know. But we are leaving our lifes here to get expeerience, to maybe study a little more (get my wife to finish her professional studies, whatever they may be) and then we will go back to Old providence, to open a small business, or live out of fishing(im not bad at it) and raising our children there!!!
I hope this little story serves the purpose of this forum!
I will stay in touch!
