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Golf day!!!
Hi everybody. Today I want to talk about golf. Yesterday I went to a popular tournament of golf. This kind of tournaments are held on Monday in private golf clubs. To be a club member you have to pay a monthly membership beside an initial contribution which are usually very expensive (something like 50k). Only rich people can afford the money to be member of a private club. But on Mondays clubs are closed for members so the management's club allows to the public play in the golf course for a small fee (about 20 dollars that includes lunch).
It's really nice what the management's clubs does because permits to everybody have the chance to play in a beautiful golf course and it helps to popularize a not so well-know and too exclusive sport like golf in society.
I played four rounds (thrirty-six holes) and I ended exhausted for walking and hitting the ball. In the first two rounds I didn't play so well (I think I was a little rusty because I haven't played for some weeks) but in the last two rounds I improved my game, I felt more confortable with my swing and I hit better the ball and I improved my shot game. I was putting like gods even with a really hard greens because last week it was held a professional open there. I should practice more but I wish I had the time to do it. Sad :(
As always thanks for reading and correcting my entry.
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Venezuela crisis in a nutshell
Hi, today I want to talk about a topic that I don't like too much. Politics.
I'll try to explain briefly what it's happening now in Venezuela and how affects to Colombia. Remember this is my personal opinion and I'ĺl try to be the more objective as I can. Venezuela used to be one of the most richest countries here in South America. The country have huge oil reserves even more than Arabic countries but about twenty years ago a army commander Hugo Chavez took the power in a coup d'état. His political thinking was mainly communist so he tried to implant communist in Venezuela. Private companies were closed or the government takes control of them.
So bad management of public resources, corruption in the government and an economic dependent almost 100% of oil, it drove to the country to poverty and a super high inflation. The good's prices skyrocketed and the currency lost value in the market. After Chavez's death, Nicolas Maduro (former bus driver) was entitled president. Nothing changed and the country is still poor and dangerous. People had to have run away from their home and they have been migrating to neighbor countries like Peru or Colombia.
As always thanks for reading and correcting my entry.
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Letter for my future myself (one year)
Dear Christian
I just hope that all your plans and expectations become reality. If everything gone well, you must be ready for you travel to Germany in order to start studying your master degree. You must have enough money, you spend one year saving money and working hard. I also expect a major improvement in your tennis game and that you will be more fit because you have been going to the gym regularly.
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Myanmar until now...
Hello guys I would like tell you about Myanmar which is the country where I'm travelling now.
Like every developing country you see much poverty in the streets however people seen be happy and they are really friendly and helpful. I think here is where I most struggle with the language. Only few people speak English (and not a good one) even in touristic spots. I have never felt so foreign in a place lol.
Prices are cheap but accomodation is a little bit expensive (for SEA standards). As Budhish country the main attraction is to visit temples and pagodas and to watch the landscapes (When I was in Mandalay I felt like I was in a movie. Lovely city).
I'm a bit sick and tired of pagodas jajaja so I am going now to a town named Kalaw to trekking. After I have to come back to Yangon in order to fly to Vietnam. I hope enjoy the trekking because I'm running out of time.
Thanks for reading and correcting my entry.
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Thailand
Hi guys.
I'm finishing my trip here in Thailand. It was a very strange trip in my opinion. When I arrive to Bangkok I was very sick I think I got food poisoning so I had to be in bed (two days lost).
The prices here are ok however the country is so tourist-oriented that I felt many times the prices were a little bit expensive - for Southern Asia standards -
The last day I felt down riding a motorbike - sign- it wasn't much serious but now I am limping because I hurt my right knee. I hope get well soon because tomorrow I'll flight to Yangon. I am really looking forward to travel to Myanmar. Accommodation there is a little bit expensive but many friends and colleagues travellers told me that is a cheap and nice country to visit.
As always thanks for reading and correcting my entrie.
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Update!!!
Wow..Hi guys it's been a long long time without posting here. Many things are happening, I have been traveling a lot. After I left NZ I went to attend the Australian Open, It was AMAZING, I think it was one of the best experiences in my life. I met my idol Roger Federer and I watched world-class tennis matches - that guys are really good-
Nowadays I am traveling around Southern Asia but I am starting to feel a little tired, I miss my family and my friends and I am starting to running out of money besides I like to work (I'm software developer) and I really miss playing tennis. So I decided to speed up my travel pace to hopefully end my journey in two months from now.
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My 2018 in a nutshell
This new year seems to be very interesting for me. Next week I am going to Australia to attend the Australian Open. My dream is going all four Grand Slam so I could say that this travel is a quarter of my dream :)
After Australia, I am going to start my journey to Southern Asia I hope to visit at least 8 countries and spend about 4 months there. In the other hand I'll break of tennis for that time - damp now I feel that I am hitting the ball like I want to hit it and I fell fit and much comfortable playing even long and tough matches- but it's ok as the title of the song "You can't always get what you want". I'll try to be fit and work out while I'll travel.
Met new people, know new cultures and customs, eat unknow food for me, everything is very excited for me. Oh and I'll retake scuba diving. Southern Asia is a paradise for diving so I hope to do at least twenty immersions.
I am going to come back to my country passing via Europe. I probably will spend two weeks in Spain (Madrid).
Thanks for read and correct my entry.
BTW... Happy New Year for all Italki member. You are so helpful guys I really appreciate the thing that I'd learn in this site.
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20/12/2018
Today I went to worked out for a while to the tennis club where I signed in for this month. I met a coach who is Colombian as me, his name is Nicolas and he seems a very nice guy. He has been living in Auckland almost for three years, he lives with his family in North Shore, far away from the tennis club. After I did some lifting and core exercises in the gym and I backed home. In the afternoon I went with my flatmates to leisure centre. We had a lot of fun, it's a great place equipped with a sauna, steams, pools. A very relaxing atmosphere there, I love the place and I hope to come back here next week.
Thanks for reading my entry and corrected it.
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19/12/2018
As usual in this free time in NZ, today I woke up late, ate a huge breakfast which was a bow of fruit, two fried eggs, two toast with peanut butter and jam and my lovely coffee. New I went to the Chinese market to buy some groceries. Back to home, I cooked pasta for lunch and I rode my bicycle to Henderson Tennis park where I played tennis with my friend Peter. He beat me in three sets (6-1 3-6 6-4). I don't know what happen with my play, today I felt that I was hitting crips and clear shots but in sometimes I lost my head and lost control of the match, I should work more in my mental game. It was three intense hours of tennis plus 24 kilometres riding my bike so I am writing this with little bit rest of my energy :)
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