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I wouldn’t exactly call being thrown into my work a baptism by fire, even though the weather was still blisteringly hot, and no matter how often I showered in a day, I just couldn’t get keep from sweating. Seeing my plight, and commiserating with me, somebody told me to wait … Read more...
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Leaving Barquisimeto behind, I set out for San Felipe – one of the shorter bus trips in this journey. There I was to meet up with my friend with the debit card and the cash; not that I had much need of it yet, the first trip from … Read more...
Continue reading...→The beach was wonderful, and the language classes proceeded, and August turned into September, and September was coming to end. We had been promised a week off between our 4 weeks of luxuriating on the beach, and the final 2 weeks of language training in a town much closer … Read more...
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So here I was then, on an overnight bus to Barquisimeto, having been strip-searched and wished a good night. The remainder of this leg of the trip went by uneventfully; there were one or two other occasions when the bus was stopped by the National Guard, but no further searches were … Read more...
Continue reading...→Of all the questions asked, this must be the question that can be both the easiest to answer and the most frustratingly invasive. Where are you going? And the level of interest by the questioner in the reply lies in the tone with which this question is asked. There is the tone of … Read more...
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