travel Journal: #6

No VIP no Fun

I spent New Year’s Eve at my country house with my family, and like any other year, we launched fireworks. I went to sleep like at six o’clock after the New Year started. I slept the rest of January first!

                I just came back from the movies today, we went to watch Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, and it was awesome. Yet the seats we had were even better! We had those sofa-like chairs that recline, and have a little table so you can eat whatever you want. I’m never going to normal movie theater ever again, from now on, I’ll always go to VIP, otherwise, it isn’t fun. I also went shopping today, and found this record store that was selling Muse CDs autographed by the band! Lucky me!

                Anyway, Pipe’s birthday is tomorrow unfortunately for him, he has to drive for about three hours to get his driver’s license, and unfortunately for me because I have to be nice to him tomorrow. I’ll manage to do my part; I just hope there are no car crash accidents on the news tomorrow.

Travel journal: #4

Morning view from my country house (those are clouds) you can imagine how high it is.

Who Knew Parrots Could Fight?

                Christmas is over, but the party still goes on for a while here in my family since my uncle Fernando comes tomorrow for New Year’s. Yesterday I came back from my country house in La Ceja; I did a lot of mountain biking and other stuff. I’ll probably go down to Rio Claro the 29^th so I can zip line and go white river rafting but we’ll see, there’s still a lot of things to do.

                While I was at my country house, something tragically hilarious happened. You see, we have a lot of crazy animals including a very rude parrot. Now, when I say rude, I mean she knows all the possible insults that can be named in both, English and Spanish! I’m serious, I have never heard so many insults come out from anyone’s mouth, not even the people from Jersey Shore swear as much as Lorenza, the parrot, does!

Anyway, so while I was calmly riding my bike around with my friend Mateo, who is also my butler’s son, we heard a violent scream followed by a series of insults and cursing. We looked everywhere but we couldn’t see where it was coming from so we just kept riding. Later that day, while we were heading back Mateo came across a gruesome thing lying on the ground. Turns out it was Lorenza! Or, what was left of her at least. It was really sad because we had no idea of what happened to her but later that day when we were checking the video we recorded on Mateo’s helmet we saw what happened! We obviously had no idea the helm-cam had recorded it but it sure helped a lot with the grief. In the video, Lorenza was attacked by an eagle and she fought against it! It was awesome! Lorenza was actually landing some claws on the eagle while cursing and screaming! It was an awesome fight, and Lorenza did not die in vain because the eagle ended up dead too. They both killed each other so it was not a total loss, who knew parrots could fight?

I’m finally staying at my grandma’s place and we’re going to see a movie tonight and I do feel bad about Lorenza’s death, but what’s done is done, so we all have to move on with it.

Travel Journal: #3

Lego I built

Open ALL the Presents!

                It’s the day before Christmas and as everyone else is, I’m totally excited for tomorrow. I just can’t wait to spread the joy, eat traditional meals, share some hugs with my family, and last but definitely not least, open up ALL the presents! (9gagers will get that).

                Anyway back to the present, today was a very busy day. I went to get a vaccine and I also went to see my pediatrician. The vaccine didn’t hurt that much, but that’s not what my brother would tell you, he hates vaccines. I think you could actually hear him scream from outside the doctor’s office, and what’s worse is that it was the yellow fever vaccine, I mean; the needle is like an inch long! But I guess we all have our fears, it’s not like I’m the toughest either.

                At the pediatrician I came out to be the healthiest. I had no recommendations or any of that stuff, but I did get a lollipop for being healthy. I also got some acupuncture done at the pediatrician’s, I don’t know why though, I thought it was very weird.

                Speaking of weird, I just finished making this weird Lego thing. I just had some trouble sleeping last night so I kind of made this bigger scale model of a Lego figure. My mom says it looks like a Lego Elvis but I don’t, my mom uses contacts so her vision’s not as clear as mine. Either way, I wish everyone a happy Christmas and a merry New Year!

Travel Journal: #2

Last Day with my Neighbors

                It’s a beautiful day today, everything’s sunny and it’s very hot outside. Yesterday I ended up sleeping at my neighbor’s; we played Black Ops, threw water balloons out the window, and pointed lasers to the building in front at 3 AM. We had a blast actually, it was an awesome final day, but then I had to leave because my little cousin’s birthday was last night, so I had to get ready. Oriana, my cousin, was very excited to see us there; it had been a year since we last saw each other so one could say that my brothers I and were her biggest present. The party carried on very well, Oriana played with her friends and the grownups socialized, but when it was time for the cake everyone dropped to the floor with laughter.

                I’ve always thought that nowadays kids hear stuff everywhere, and they repeat it anytime without even knowing what it means, Oriana is one of those kids. As we finished singing happy birthday to her, Oriana suddenly screamed “mudda fuq!” at the top of her lungs! She probably did not know what it meant, but it was totally hilarious, even her mom couldn’t stop laughing hysterically. What was even better was that we got her on video so we laughed for about an hour, repeating the video over and over again.

                Anyway, I went to the dentist today and was told to floss for the 573847^th time, and I gave the excuse of “braces make everything so hard!” for the 573847^th time. I’ll be having lunch with my grandma today and then I’ll head back home with my mom to watch a movie. I can’t wait ‘till Christmas though, there may have been as light chance that I peeked through some presents, but only some not all of them. 

Travel Journal: #1

Just the view from my appartment

It Wouldn't be Home without the Bump

             It’s the second day that I’ve woken up in Medellin with a bump on my head because I’ve outgrown my bunk bed so I basically have to drag myself out before sitting up, and I can’t sleep on the top because I move too much, but it wouldn’t be home without the bump. The cool thing about my bed is that I put a bunch of glow-in-the-dark stickers with the shape of stars and planets on the roof of the bottom bed, so when you turn off the light, it’s like you’re in space. Anyway, I’m finally done unpacking and fixing my old kid room.

 Around my neighborhood nothing has changed much, but the city itself is totally different from what I remember. The climate’s good, I can now wear jeans and a jacket without getting soaked in sweat. I’ve been hanging out with my neighbors as much as possible because they’ll be leaving soon for vacations so I guess after they go, I’m out of my parent’s house to spend some time with my grandmother since my brothers are staying there too, (I just don’t want to hang around too much around my dad, when he’s in vacation he picks on everyone). I’m probably going to sleep over at my neighbor’s house actually; I have nothing to do today apart from playing with my old toys.

                It’s funny actually, my mom caught me this morning playing with my Lego and stuff, I got a little nostalgic. I have these huge plastic boxes packed with Lego blocks, little figures, vehicles, and even structures! The cool part about having architect parents is that they help you make awesome Lego buildings, but I’m not as good as my parents so I ended up with this crummy “house”. I also started looking through old school projects my brothers and I made, some old photos, and I also found my old baby blanket! Of course it’s too small for me now, it only covers my feet.

                I’m going to make myself a sandwich for lunch and maybe go ride my bike with my neighbors if it stops raining, if not, I’ll just play some more Lego.


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