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So here I am, in Columbia, sitting in a freshly painted room the color of Dulce de Leche. It kind of makes me miss Argentina because they are obsessed with dulce de leche there (its similar to caramel). It will feel like home before too long. Its already starting to get there.


"Does God do this in other places or does this only happen here?" she asked as she pulled up fistfuls of ashy vegetation.
Hortensia Chicaiza and her husband searched desperately through an ash-covered field for food for her livestock. (a couple from Ecuador after the volcano Tungurahua erupted). My heart is heavy for them. This picture is from its erruption in 1991. It doesn't even look real, more like computer graphics. Those poor people.....

Earlier this summer as an ambulance drove by the pizzaria I was working at a boy about 4 years of age repeated very softly to himself 5 times or so "God bless those people." He unknowingly touched me.