Graduation in Latin-American style

November was all about the graduation. The first weekend was a spiritual weekend. Most of my classmates lived their whole life on the island. When they graduate, everyone is going to the big cities in Colombia to study, saying goodbye to the good life in beautiful San Andrés. That weekend was a really special and really emotional weekend. We ended the weekend with a visit to Johnny Cay, that's one of the smaller islands in front of the coast of San Andrés.

The rotary organised a walk in the center of San Andrés to support breast cancer in which I participated.

At the end of the month, we started decorating the house with a Christmas tree and lots of lights. The whole family was coming together for the graduation of my host brother. It was really cosy, everyone lives far from eachother and it was fun to have everyone here. It was very busy in the house, but it was totally worth it.
We went diving with the family, it was my first diving experience, I already did freediving and snorkling but I never dived with oxygin. It was amazing and I can't wait to go diving again. When you're 12 meters down in the water, you forget all about the world next to the beautiful underwaterworld.

26 November: thanksgiving day, a day which is very known in the states, a day to say thank you for the things you have. 26 of November was also the graduation day. A lot of work was finally going to pay off. I had to get up at 6.30 in the morning. The celebration was at 8.30. It was with the special clothes and the hat and everyting you can imagin or that you've ever seen in the movies. After lots of speeches, we received our diploma, moment of glory! Done with college, starting a new life. For me: I am graduated for the second time, this time in Latin-American style.

I'm writing this blog at 3 o'clock. Like I already said, they have a reason to party for everything here, and graduation day is a BIG reason. Tonight everyone is going to dress up in beautifull dresses who were bought or made a lot of time before this day. The party is going to be on a boat called MonteCarlo who's going around the island. It will be a long and unforgettable night.

Tomorrow I'll be flying to Bogota for my trip to the Amazone, I'm really exited, I hope I'll be able to get up in the morning after the celebration for our graduation.
Greetings from San Andrés.