Simple things that make me happy

 Cali is an incredibly green city. Even the red zones, which we've only passed in vehicles, have a lot of trees and greenery. 

It makes me very happy.

The avocadoes here are giant, squishy, and slightly more fruity than the ones you get in Norway or England.
This is half an avocado on a dinner plate.

Also food related: I was incredibly disappointed the other day, after buying a massive water melon that turned out to be green, because it wasn't ripe. Today I bought a baby watermelon and it was perfect (and I ate from it with a spoon).

Now, all these photos are from inside our apartment, because I haven't yet plucked up the courage to carry my camera around outside (we have had a lot of security training). They are also from my phone, much for the same reason. And they are mostly about food and the view because that's what I mostly do when I'm in the house - if we don't have visitors for dinner or I'm out swimming. I'll try to take more photos with our work camera, which might be slightly better than my phone, and I will show you more of where I work and with whom.

Until then - enjoy dreaming about watermelons and avocadoes!

Extremely awake and incredibly lively

Me, in our house, where we are welcome

The only thing that hasn't been amazing about the past few weeks (because yes, amazing house, city, work place, colleagues and volunteers) has been that the internet in our house (well, apartment) hasn't been working. We'd pretty much stopped believing in the internet ("You'll have it tomorrow! Mañana, mañana, mañana.") when it suddenly appeared today.

So here's an end to facebooking at work (unless it's work-related), and replying to non-work-related emails at work, and reading random blogs at work, because we can do it all at home. And to our defense, we've only been using facebook when we've arrived before everyone else, or during our lunch hour, or after work, which is just plain tiring, really. 

The only downside to this is that I will mostly be available after 18:00 here, which is 01:00 in Norway, or at 07:00 in the morning, which is 14:00 in Norway. 

ANYWAY INTERNET EXCITE, now bed time.

Bogotá, Colombia, we are here!

 View from the hotel, this is Bogotá, or at least part of it

Me, Johanne and Willian (former youth delegate to Norway) who picked us up at the airport and gave us food

 

 

Now: It's morning over here and we are getting ready for meetings, meetings, food and some more meetings.

Co-delegate

 This is my brilliant co-delegate Johanne climbing into a tree

And this is after I used a chair to get up there with her

It always suprises me how quickly you get to know people when you spend a lot of time with them. Johanne and I met for the first time in June, spending a little less than 24 hours together, and then again now, two or three weeks ago, and have been spending the days with ten others, getting to know them as well. This coming year will have us closer than most relationships, and I'm looking forward to finding out how that will work. For now, my hopes are fairly high.