In a few hours I will be hopping on a plane to Colombia where I will be living for the next few months. I don’t know how long I will be gone for, nor do I know how long I will be in Colombia. I just know that I need to be traveling to be happy and I will aggressively pursue any means that will allow me to travel indefinitely. But why leave? And why go to Colombia?
Life in the US is boring. I’m surrounded by boring people who do boring things and who have boring hobbies. They go to boring schools, take boring classes and get boring jobs so that they can get boring houses in boring neighborhoods and go to boring parties with their boring neighbors. They make boring dreams with their boring friends where they go to boring places and eat boring foods. Boring boring boring. I’m tired of being around boring people who make me bored of my existence.
Colombia is not boring. I don’t know much about it but I do know that it wont be boring. Colombians eat different foods, they speak a different language, they dance to different music, they go to different places and they have a different government. With everything being so different I won’t be bored for a while. Colombia has a reputation as a country that is torn apart by a drug war. While this really is no different than the war torn country I’ve been living in, it does provide an advantage to me. Since most Americans are too afraid to go to Colombia I won’t have to worry about running into any boring Americans while I am there.
I plan to make a lot of money while I am traveling. I will find work in Colombia as an English teacher. I will work in a school, teach to private students, start my own school and write books that English learners can use. There are also lots of opportunities to make money through import-export. I don’t know what they are right now, but I will know them when I see them. I think Colombia is a good place to do business right now because most foreigners have been to scared to do business there in the past, and since the violence is calming down a bit the country will see a lot of foreign investment in the future. If I establish myself there before the herd I will be in a nice position to profit.
I’ve got my eye on Brazil though. I plan on taking Portuguese lessons while I am in Colombia that way I will be better prepared to do business in Brazil when I decide to go there. I don’t have any idea when that will be but I know it wont be long. Life in the US isn’t for me; I’m much too in love with the idea of being an international man, a Permanent Traveler, a Perpetual Tourist, a Profit Thinker. Unless I have business to conduct I don’t see myself coming back to the US.
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Everyone around you in the U.S. is boring? Isn’t that kind of insulting to all of your friends, everyone you know? I’m just sayin…
Boring is a subjective concept. What I consider boring isn’t what other people would consider boring. Something is boring to me if I know it too well. Familiarity is boring.
“They go to boring schools, take boring classes and get boring jobs”
I resent that statement. If you consider USC boring than how do you compare it to UCR…
Even more boring?
I’m not trying to negate your reason for leaving I’m just saying I am incredibly happy with my situation and to be called boring insults me.
Don’t die,
David.
Canada is even more boring. I’m from the US. I feel
glad to back there but it too bores me. I guess
Puerto Rico is a viable substitute. Lol
Yo need to do more research. Teaching English require a certificate and is poorly paid when considering how expensive bogota is. More research equals less bored
Some English schools I looked at in Medellin paid 10,000 COP an hour. No way am I gonna slave away for $5 an hour. I’m in Brazil now and the pay here is much friendlier.
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