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		<title>Una semana descalzo &#8211; A week barefoot (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first night in La Vigia we each fumbled with the perfect spots on the wall for tying the corners of our mosquito nets. By the last night, I’d almost gotten it figured out. With mattresses across the living room &#8230; <a href="http://drewlong.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/una-semana-descalzo-a-week-barefoot-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drewlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388151&amp;post=429&amp;subd=drewlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Una semana descalzo (A week barefoot) &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Requiring over 15 hours of land and sea travel and the direct support of a cast of locals along the way, getting to La Vigia, a remote fishing village on Colombia’s Pacific coast, felt more like an old-fashioned quest than &#8230; <a href="http://drewlong.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/una-semana-descalzo-a-week-barefoot-part-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drewlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388151&amp;post=417&amp;subd=drewlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia for North Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, assuming soap box position… Colombians know about their country`s infamy in North America, that they´ve been stereotyped as a tropical jungle of violence and drug traffic.  It´s a sad and ironic misinterpretation of a country that´s most notable in &#8230; <a href="http://drewlong.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/colombia-for-north-americans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drewlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388151&amp;post=413&amp;subd=drewlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to 4th graders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the last day of school with the kids.  It was as hard as I’d imagined it would be, even a little harder.  I could only take so many hugs and goodbyes from the many special kids I’ve spent &#8230; <a href="http://drewlong.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/farewell-to-4th-graders/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drewlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388151&amp;post=406&amp;subd=drewlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;No dar papaya&#8221; &#8211; Two Identities in Colombia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s an expression that’s sort of the golden rule in Colombia: “no dar papaya”. It means something like “don’t flash your wealth in public”. They’re words of caution to avoid things like getting your cellphone stolen out of your hand &#8230; <a href="http://drewlong.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/no-dar-papaya-two-identities-in-colombia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drewlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388151&amp;post=401&amp;subd=drewlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The first of parting words</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really want to take a moment, amidst the business of ending the school year and closing the all too short 11 months of my life in Colombia, to attempt a few thoughtful comments on Cali, Colombia and Colombians.  A &#8230; <a href="http://drewlong.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/the-first-of-parting-words/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drewlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388151&amp;post=393&amp;subd=drewlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On becoming a Florida Gator</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been putting off that Colombian vacation, meticulously refining your salsa moves and wearing out your Rosetta Stone “Latin-American Spanish”, leave well enough alone.  You’ve plateau-ed.  And that’s okay!  No one’s judging you!  Now come visit me before I’m &#8230; <a href="http://drewlong.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/on-becoming-a-florida-gator/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drewlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388151&amp;post=382&amp;subd=drewlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Linguistics, 1st graders and a research project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, anyone out there interested in linguistics?  Does everyone know what linguistics is?  My Mom once called it mental masturbation, but it’s actually the “scientific study of language” – not any specific language, necessarily, but the study of structures, themes &#8230; <a href="http://drewlong.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/linguistics-1st-graders-and-a-research-project/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drewlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388151&amp;post=342&amp;subd=drewlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago I was a civil engineer in Seattle, sitting at my desk high above the street, watching ferries cross the Puget Sound, gazing at snowcapped Mt. Rainier, and wishing I wanted to be there.  I dreamed of being &#8230; <a href="http://drewlong.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/son-muchos-sombreros-que-viste-el-profesor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drewlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388151&amp;post=315&amp;subd=drewlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feliz año de Colombia!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions.  However, three weeks of vacation later, after a Colombian Christmas reunion of the King Street crew (Katrina, Felipe and I were housemates in Seattle) in Bogotá, a week of lounging on the Caribbean &#8230; <a href="http://drewlong.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/feliz-ano-de-colombia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drewlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388151&amp;post=306&amp;subd=drewlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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