voy a colombia

It's really late, but I have successfully created my blog, so I'm pumped.

I'm leaving for Medellin, Colombia approximately June 13th, I will include more information soon, but it's 3:00 in the morning right now.

I am so excited always; intermittently nervous. But when I read articles that end like this it makes me happy:

Statistics alone don't capture the sense of rebirth here. Atop the slum, in the shadow of ascending gondolas and a new computer lab, the city's poorest children think they're kings of the hill. They chase after me, tugging at my jacket, 30 or 40 at once. It's not my money that they want, it's pictures of themselves and their friends. As I sit down to catch my breath, a runty seven-year-old boy with a precocious understanding of digital photography suddenly climbs out from under the bench. "I don't have e-mail yet," he says. "So print it for me for when you come back, O.K.?" (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_22/b4036001.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+story)

I can't wait!