Eres una nota

... means you're an absoluter belter, a delight of a person. You're a musical note! Colombian spanish is incredible.

Since you last heard from me i've moved into a new flat, and am slowly filling it up with gubbins. I bought a load of furniture off this unfortunate English teacher, and travelled across Bogota in the back of a rattly removal man, lying in the pitch black on a red velvet sofa which was rather more haggard after this journey. Now in our living room there is nothing but the sofa in question, a Colombian flag pinned to the wall and my old school leather suitcase sitting in the middle of the floor as a kind of makeshift coffee table. I love it.

I've started classes now and the've all gone well so far, had fun whipping a class of 35 surly 18 year olds into an absolute frenzy over a game of "leisure time bingo", and telling them how much i like Colombian food.

Last night me and a few pals went to this belter of a bar just round the corner from the flat called Casa de Citas. This means "House of dates" (like a night out sort of date, not the dried fruit) and the place used to be a whorehouse, but now it's this big cavernous colonial building with old geezers playing Cuban music and old salsa posters everywhere. As soon as we arrived this guy came up and immediately riled me by asking what we wanted in English, but then when i asked for 2 Agilas (a delightful brand of Colombian beer) he responed in a thick Celtic drawl, "Aggeelaz, aaye?". Needless to say i was a little shocked to hear an accent as melodious as my own here in Colombia, shocked but delighted. He'd lived in Northern Ireland hence the amazing accent, and we ended up sitting boozing with him and his mates all night. The were really interesting, they all worked as political analysts, and one of them was a total big shot in Colombia who used to be a guerrilla but now works with the authorities. This is why i like going out during the week, because if there's only 6 people in the whole pub you're bound to end up talking to them. One of them was a total sports fanatic called Gina, who's going to take us to see a Colombian football match on Saturday! Braw.

Talking of football, one of my pals has just instigated the Bogota branch of the St. Mirren Supporter's Club, i'm not sure i can stand for there not being a PTFC rival to this organization, although we are probably the only two fans of wee rubbish Scottish teams in the whole country.