Did that just happen?

Well Saturday was a very eventful day for us. We had our first real work, an English immersion in the town next to Bogota called Chia. We did the immersion for a company so everyone knew each other and it was a blast- it hardly seemed like we were working at all. The company was split into 2 groups elementary and intermediate basically and each group spent half the day watching a movie and answering questions about it and the other half doing communication exercises. For the elementary that amounted to grilling us about ourselves and for the intermediate we did role plays of different situations which was hilarious.

Then came the end of the day, first one of the women had a dead car battery. Instead of having one person stay to jump the car, everyone stayed and put on music and danced while one of the engineers procured some covered wire and jumped the car. Oh and before that they tried to get the car to turn over by pushing it down the road, which didn't work but they continued to try because it was fun.

Then once we got that car jumped everyone got in their cars and started to head out when we realize that our car, the one our boss was driving, also had a dead battery!!!! So then everyone just turned around and resumed the festivities. So we got the car jumped and we started heading home at which point our boss decides we aren't going home, instead we're going to a place called Andres Carnes de Res for drinks. Andres is literally a cultural icon, WHEN you all come to Colombia you have to go there. It opened about 25 years ago as a small BBQ place and has just expanded like crazy, it's huge- there's a full dance floor, full restaurant, the decorations are a combination of flashing neon and religious icons- its quite the combo. In addition to the music that's playing over the crowd noice, they also have bands that come around and play for your table and give out random stuff- I got a beauty pagent sash and Linnea got a bandana haha.

So our company there was our boss, another woman teacher in her 50s, and this crazy grunge girl from Canada who literally wore jeans and a jamaican flag colored jersey to the immersion (everyone else was wearing blazers)- so quite the medley. Robert, our boss, ordered a bunch of delicious Colombian appetizers so we got lovely sampling and...margaritas for everyone. Then after that he decided well the appetizers were good but we should probably get a steak for everyone to share and another round of margaritas (dont' worry not one for him, he was driving). So that's when things started to get a little crazy, when the 50 year old women with a PhD started saying how drunk she was, great.

So we manage to get out of Andres in one piece. Then on the way home we get stopped by the police just to check the car's paperwork, which happens pretty regularly here but the cop was giving Robert an unnecessarily hard time. Apparently that put the other two women over the edge- shortly after that we had to pull over so that the grunge girl could lose her dinner and the 50 year old woman could relieve herself...on the side of the highway- with Linnea and I sitting in the back seat watching with horror.

They finally got themselves together and we went to take home the grunge girl who lives in Old Bogota which is pretty questionable at night...where we proceded to get a flat tire. Luckily there was a policeman there so we told him, hey we have to change our flat tire can you just make sure we dont get mugged, lovely. So as our boss began to fiddle with the tire, Linnea and I took over...and changed the tire in about 5 minutes. So just imagine this scene, its night time in a questionable area and there are 2 white girls changing a tire in blazers and heels while a man watches- it must have been quite surreal to see haha.

So that was our night. Luckily our boss paid us more than he said he was going to, I'm not sure if it was for changing the tire or for putting up with the craziness that was the other teachers but hey, we'll take it!