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Fake it ’til you make it: The “Foreign” Colombians

Colombia by bananaskinflipflopsAugust 9, 2015December 18, 2020

Colombia by bananaskinflipflopsMay 1, 2011May 21, 2011

It will be a dating disaster

“How long has it been since you last went on a date?” my friends asked me, trying to be kind. I made a noise that sounded like “Um-I-don’t-know” but it was apparently so pathetic they decided I needed a plan. I was ordered to write a list of four people in my life whom I […]

Colombia by bananaskinflipflopsSeptember 4, 2010April 12, 2011

Can beggars be choosers?

“You look at them with such pity,” Diego snapped. I hurriedly averted my eyes from the forlorn figure of a tramp, huddled beneath his blanket in a filthy shop doorway. “Oh, it’s an English thing,” I said hurriedly. “They usually have dogs and you know how English people feel about dogs.” “No, you feel sorry […]