Copy of New Year's Eve

Then I made sure that they are high-educated and very interesting (specially Colombians)...

New Year's Eve...

It is a good time to take stock of the year

This Year Achievements

In September, when I went to the Skills for Change for the first time, I was shocked how many people from South America are my classmates...

I knew that according to Colombian tradition, on New Year's Eve, I should wear yellow underwear and eat 12 grapes...

I realized that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian...

I even read his

"El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba"

I tasted

Colombian food!!!

(Thank you

Andrea & Andres!)

I knew that Colombian women are very beautiful (Andrea, it is about you...) and very temperamental (Maria, it is about you)

I understood the very complicated formula of Colombian names:

• First First name + Second First name + Father's Last name + Mother's Last name

or

• First First name + Second First name + Father's Last name + (de) + Husband Father's Last name

I knew that name "Omar" is a common name not only in Arab and Muslim countries...

English language has a saying "you did my day."

I want to paraphrase it, "YOU DID MY YEAR!!!"

Thank all of you!!!

My first investigation gave me information that Colombia is a big country with two cornucopias on the coat of arms

Olga's Diary

Although Europeans have known the existence of South America more than 500 years, I "opened" it for myself only in 2013

July 01, 2013

We want to go to Cuba.

I was researching TripAdviser.com to find a hotel.

All English messages look absolutely the same:

"The beach is good... The weather is good...

However, there are a lot of Russians... They are terrible..."

All Russian messages look absolutely the same:

"The beach is good... The weather is good...

However, there are a lot of Canadians... They are terrible..."

I am frustrated...

July 12, 2013

It is our first day in Cuba... We are living in the very strange hotel... No one speaks English... All staff try to speak with us Russian... All guests speak Spanish...

My first "meeting" with people from South America was Just awful...

July 13, 2013

After our first night we changed room (it was impossible to sleep... all night we were listening Spanish songs from the lobby)...

Also we recognized a few Russians...

However, where are Canadians

July 02, 2013

We decided we can survive in both environments (the Russian and the Canadian).

The hotel is found. The tickets are bought.

I am looking forward to see this country. All time in my head are playing old Soviet songs ("Cuba Is My Love" and another one about sombrero & Varadero)...

July 15, 2013

Today I ordered a service on the hotel's reception. The girl-receptionist gave me a receipt, which was printed on the used paper. On the back side of the receipt I found a list of hotel's guests.

Olga

July 16, 2013

Now I know where Canadians are!!! And I totally dislike them:

• they go to the restaurant in swimsuits;
• they put a lot of tables together in the restaurant. As a result, their dinner looks like a wedding;
• their children always are running around of pools and jumping in pools;

However, I should note that their behaviour absolutely the same as behaviour of typical Russian people!!!

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Next Year Agenda

JAVIER RODRIGO HERRERA CANADA

HUGO ENRIQUE RODRIGUEZ CANADA

JUAN REINALDO JIMENEZ CANADA

To start using a right pronunciation of word "Colombia". Now I pronounce it in the typical Russian way, and, as a result, it sounds like "Kalumbia."

From Russia

With Love

A n

To memorize a few Spanish songs of Shakira

To see all episodes of "Yo Soy Betty,

La Fea"