A long awaited update...

Hello everyone, as you can see from my scarce updates, it´s been over 2 months since my last update - I´m terribly sorry for this. Today, friday I´m home, have gotten sick in the last days, just as this week is filled with cultural events at the university, which means there has´nt beeen classes in the last few days. I´m now living in Robledo, another area of Medellín, just 5 minutes from uni in bicycle, which suits me quite well, especially on tuesdays, when I have lessons at 7 o´clock in the morning.

Here is a short summary of the last 2 months:
In the end of july I finished my spanish course in Poblado, and after that I went to Bogotá to sort out a visa and a identity card, and of course I also went to visit the two other norwegian students and other friends that I got to know in Medellín. The climate was quite from that of Medellín, but it was nice to see the capital again and I met a lot of good people. For the visa I went to the foreign affairs ministry, it took me surprisingly just 3,5 hours to get my visa. After around 5 days I was ready to get back to my town and the warm climate. I also had time to visit the campus of the National University in the capital, which was much bigger than the one in Medellin, whith around 25000 students, compared to the 10000 ones here. Funny enough, I got to meet a friend from my primary school in Norway, had´nt seen him in 8 years, it´s funny how you meet people again at different places.































After coming back to Medellin I had some days of to enjoy the local flowerfestival before the uni startet on the 2nd of august. The same week I was so lucky to get visit from Europe -my mom from Norway and my aunt from Holland - they´ve never been to Latin-America before and didn´t know any spanish - I really respect them for coming this far. They stayed for a little week before they continued to the coast and the capital before returning again in the end of august for a second time. We got some time to visit some small villages situated around Medellin.














Otherwise, I´ve been studying a lot, working with the spanish language and try to have the weekends for smaller excursions and for bikeriding. I have gotten the pleasure to get to know many wonderful people at the university, especially at the faculty of history, where I spend most of my time considering that I´m taking 3 history courses, two about Colombia and one about Latin-America. In total I have 4 courses, the last one about Colombia and post independence in the 19th century. Ofcourse I have to add a picture of my bicycle:

Otherwise I have thinking about staying here for another semester, so I hope that it would be possible to extend my exchange and being able to write my bachelor assignment down here. Anyway I will be home for xmas in Norway, so don´t worry guys, I´ll see you in december / januari. Well, enough writing, don´t want to bore you. Will write again soon. Last picture here is of my friends and me, the one is my neighbour and the other lives close by.