Uncle's Beatles Birthday

Colombia loves the beatles too! Who doesn’t? They are my uncle’s favorite band of all time so for his 50th birthday party my aunt got him a Colombian band that impersonates the Beatles. They look just like them they sound just like them and they walk and talk just like them too! They get in character through and through. John Lennon or well the one that impersonates him had his girlfriend there and she was also in character she was dressed like his actual wife! My uncle got up there with the band and it was so cute seeing him sing with them and knowing all the songs word for word and he looked so happy!! Later that night a person that impersonates Juan Gabriel was there too and he was hilarious and also like the real guy. I think my uncle’s brother got him that one. My aunt is great at decorating and made strips of black and white cloths with the Beatles on it and the four guys in their typical pose crossing the street which she actually got from some pajamas my cousin got for him when she was at Liverpool a few years back. She had it made somewhere, which I think is so cool they just do those types of things here. They make whatever you want. You will literally find someone for everything here! Like the cake which was so nice with the Beatles name at the top and there was the number 50 going down a little bit, then his name and at the bottom was a guitar and some red strip of I don’t really know what but it was all edible and so delicious. The white part is not frosting its something else that tastes really good I’ll find out exactly what it is later. This was all in Plancha Karaoke Bar, which is a new bar my cousin opened with some friends. It’s in el Parque Lleras, which is a section of Medellin that is full of bars, nightclubs and restaurants. We all had a great time! And the best part is that a night like this in Colombia is just the norm of every weekend. Every holiday and every excuse they have to have fun they take it, they don’t need any begging to have some fun! And that is the whole country it’s just part of the culture. Oh and the drinks where great too. They all had the funniest names! Plancha music is like for heartbroken depressed people so the drink names reflected all of that perfectly. They had the common names for the drinks underneath in parenthesis so we would know what we were ordering! For example I ordered a martini and the name they had for it was corta venas and it means wrist cutter. After the bands left every one started singing karaoke since it is a karaoke bar! The whole plancha music for depressed people sounds, well, depressing but its not haha the songs are mostly funny, when you’re not depressed… :P This was the band, check out the old guy on the left. We’re not really sure which one he was supposed to be! My uncle singing with “John Lennon” Then becoming him The cake Juan Gabriel being Juan Gabriel Enjoying the karaoke

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I forgot to say that my last blog post's pictures were taken from my aunts balcony! There is also so much more to see of Medellin's landscape this is just the view from her apartment and our neighborhood.

Medellin

I am staying in Medellin Colombia the city my parents are from and where my whole family lives. Since I am staying here most of my posts will be about things in the city or surrounding it but I will try to go and write about other great parts of Colombia as well! Trying to convince the fam to take me everywhere, still working on it ;). As you can see in the pictures it is completely surrounded by mountains and well its actually IN mountains and so so green! The buildings are usually made of brick, so all the buildings you see are all made of red brick so that’s why all the buildings look like that. I have been hot since I got here but its weird cause never before have I complained about the weather here. Maybe because I came right after winter in California; I know it’s no east coast or anything but I do love the cold California weather especially in San Francisco. The weather here is tropical and it is always very nice! The nickname of the city is “La ciudad de la eterna primavera”, “The city of the eternal spring” and it is! Since it’s tropical it does rain and has its rainy season, which is the best rain to sleep too!! Ahh I love it so much! What’s nice about it is, well of this past week, that it rains for a little bit mostly in the morning. It’s kind of as if it were only doing it so it could give water to the plants and that way the city stays green always!! You can’t really go anywhere here without going up or down a hill or taking a million sharp turns. I personally love that part of the city! It makes driving fun; you never get bored when you are going somewhere. Everything is also so close to each other. It’s like, go up one hill then take two sharp turns and your there! When my family went to visit me in California a few months back, they thought it was funny that in the U.S. they give us a speed limit for the soft turns we have to make there. They were like, “Ha! Try doing that in Colombia!” It’s really great living here the air is so fresh and with nature all around all the time it is fabulous!

Welcome!

Hi! I am Tatiana and I am currently waiting in El Salvador at the airport on my way to Colombia, South America. I come from a Colombian family and was raised in the United States while spending my summers in Colombia with my family. I lived in Colombia from one year old to five years old as well. I love being with my family and especially love Colombian culture and everything this amazing country has to offer. I am starting this blog first, because it makes me sad when I tell people I am going to Colombia and their facial expression immediately changes to horror! I really want to change the major stigma of Colombia as being all just violence and drugs. Second, I would like to never be asked again if Colombians live in teepees. Third, because I just love the country so much and want to share its greatness with the world! Or whoever reads this ☺… So I hope you enjoy this and maybe make Colombia a future place to visit!