Should I go to Colombia?

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Basically, my family wants me to accompany my grandmother to her homeland, Colombia, for her yearly escape from the Winter season. Here's my only problems. 1) I speak zero spanish. I could learn some, but I wouldn't be able to really communicate properly with anyone and I'm not sure if I want to put myself through all that. 2) I'd be gone for two months. No money coming in, and I'm trying to make some money before I start my final college semester in January. Unless I'm hit the lottery, this will be dead center in the back of my mind. 3) Who knows when grandma will want to live. Her trips to Colombia have been as short as two months to half of the entire year. 4) I wanted to take the time to concentrate on my work for college as well. I'd have to bring my laptop and I'm afraid it would make me a target for kidnappers. That's a very real situation down there and just the general idea of me just walking around in ragged clothes and still getting beat down and tied to a chair makes me second guess this trip a little bit. 5) Missing out on console launches of course! :)

What do you guys think? The trip would be free for me and I'd go somewhere I've never been while seeing family never before seen. Plus it's Colombia. Plenty of beautiful scenery and women to take in.
 
Talk to your parents. School is paramount imo, so wanting to work to save up some cash is good, and if you can't be back for sure by January before the semester starts then you have to wait even longer until you finish school. Though if you didn't mind putting off that semester until September then you could go, get some cultural experience and come back in the new year and work for a few months before the fall (if you're job would be still available). I don't know anything about the likelihood of kidnapping or robbery, guess it would depend on where you would be staying. Spanish isn't too hard to learn, if you know French it wouldn't be too hard to pick up the fundamentals, and being immersed in the language would make you learn fast a well.
 
sharkboy1200 said:
Basically, my family wants me to accompany my grandmother to her homeland, Colombia, for her yearly escape from the Winter season. Here's my only problems. 1) I speak zero spanish. I could learn some, but I wouldn't be able to really communicate properly with anyone and I'm not sure if I want to put myself through all that. 2) I'd be gone for two months. No money coming in, and I'm trying to make some money before I start my final college semester in January. Unless I'm hit the lottery, this will be dead center in the back of my mind. 3) Who knows when grandma will want to live. Her trips to Colombia have been as short as two months to half of the entire year. 4) I wanted to take the time to concentrate on my work for college as well. I'd have to bring my laptop and I'm afraid it would make me a target for kidnappers. That's a very real situation down there and just the general idea of me just walking around in ragged clothes and still getting beat down and tied to a chair makes me second guess this trip a little bit. 5) Missing out on console launches of course! :)

What do you guys think? The trip would be free for me and I'd go somewhere I've never been while seeing family never before seen. Plus it's Colombia. Plenty of beautiful scenery and women to take in.
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Go, you are going to have lot of fun. Lot of beautiful girls as well.

I have family in Colombia and we always have a blast going there.

What city are you going? I mostly go to Barranquilla where Shakira and Sofia Vergara are from but I have family in Medellin and Bogota.

BTW I know Sofia's Vergara's brother called Roy Vergara. He is my uncle's best friend. :)
 
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Well my sister has been there several times and has managed to not get herself kidnapped, beaten or robbed, so you should be good!
 
I dated a Colombian chick for a few years. This was back 10 years ago. She wouldn't go back back then. I believe it's gotten better.
 
Ever since Uribe was president, security there was top notch. The army was in every corner and checkpoints all over the place.

Very safe if you ask me. I took my kids and wife and had a blast.

All you see is always in the areas close to the borderline or jungle areas where the FARC is normally located.

Not a single moment I felt in danger and I have gone there pretty much all my life as my mother grew up there. There is big German colony specially in Medellin.
 
Lots of good comments in here. Still thinking about it. Glad to hear about security and while I'm not sure of the town I'll be staying at, I know that I'll be staying close to family. My main worry now is just not making any money for when January comes. That's about two months lost for me, but that's something I need to think about for myself.
 
BDaddyK said:
Well my sister has been there several times and has managed to not get herself kidnapped, beaten or robbed, so you should be good!
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what about rape? you forgot to mention rape. I guess if she enjoyed it you cant call it that and you just breeze over the subject when you ask her.
 
Go, jump in the deep end, learn as much Spanish as possible. Consider it educational. Probably way better than learning it in a classroom and there will be the cultural element. That's got to be one of the best experiences you could have in your life, even if it doesn't seem that great at the time.
 
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