Editorial Note: In April, I took a month off in Medellin. For me, this meant an interesting and diverting month. For you, this means 30 days of posts about my vacation. I’ll try to make them somewhat amusing.
I can see a lot of apartment buildings out my window, which gives me a pretty good idea of the hours Paisas keep. Judging from when they turn their lights out, they’re a very sober lot. I’d say that 99% of the windows I can see are dark by midnight; that’s certainly not the case even in the sleepy, suburban apartment buildings of Silicon Valley.
In fact, Medellin (or the small part of it that I’ve explored) has the feel (contrary to what you might think) of a very practical city in which almost everyone is busily engaged in earning money in some fashion. After two weeks of this, I find myself increasingly depressed about not having an actual job (having psychologically thrown in the towel on FOLI about a month ago), and am firing up the job search.
Fortunately, modern technology means that the initial phases of a job search can be done as easily from anywhere in the world. (Drop me a line if you want to hire a programmer.)
