learning learning learning Communication between cultures is different. Communication between and among sexes is different. But that is no excuse.
Mistakes hurt, and they happen, so do failures at organizing what you are planning: "hunting" business contacts in Colombia reveals itself to be another yet unlived challenge.
So mixed with decisions to be taken, the week has seen me sobbing, singing, laughing until I fell off a chair, quietly thinking (walking slowly through dark deserted streets). Now sitting by the open window of our flat, overlooking the city, mountains on the side and the buzzing "cuadra" below. The children are still as excited as they were last week when workers stared digging up the street to change some busted pipe. Everyday there are new machines on the scene, a huge digger crawled up on the loading platform of a truck last night.  ¶ 5:32 PM