Adam Goldberg
Class of 2003

August 22, 2004:

Mark,

I met up with Keith Nelson in June and he told me all about the program in Lund. It sounds like you guys got it up and running and I hope the summer went smoothly. I guess you spent at least a few weeks there this summer. As for me I came back from my Latin American journey in April. It was 8 months of bliss as my girlfriend and I moved about as we wished. The highlights were Belize, Guatemala, and Colombia as that is where we found the nicest people and beautiful nature. We ended it travelling 4 days by bus from Buenos Aires to Ecuador to catch our plane to New York, which proved to be a grand introduction to the good old USofA.

After spending a month with my family in Ukiah I came to reside in the big bad city of Los Angeles, an intimidating inconvient place to say the least, to be close to girlfriend as her sister got married in June. As she is a first generation Vitenamese-American, her family doesn't quite understand our free-wheeling lifestyle and she needs ths time to try and help them understand that it is ok she is not like them. So I am giving her until Feburary before we embark in our next adventure, this time into the mountains of Japan. We plan on doing the English teaching thing and exploring Asia for a few years.

This summer I have been working on the beach at a summer camp and have been giving private spanish lessons. In October we are roadtripping it north to Canada to visit my mom's family and get a taste of what is had to offer for us as a possible future home, as I have citizenship. Life continues to be interesting and fun although LA is not the place for me. Being here, however, has been quite an experience. Be in touch. I may be up in Santa Barbara for Labor Day weekend, so if you will be around give me your number and maybe we can get together.

Adam  

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Mark,

We have been in Colombia now almost 3 weeks and it is great. The people are so friendly and living is cheap. We took a yacht from Colombia and stopped in the San Blas Islands. The journey was 4 nights, but we made even with the capitain breaking his sail. We then checked out Cartagena and Santa Marta in the north as well as national park Tyrona which has some of the best beaches I have ever seen. We met people who spent 6 months in Brazil and say the Brazilian beaches don't compare.

We also went up into the mountains for a few days staying at a fruit farm. We have been taking buses south and went to Bogota where we saw the gold musuem, which houses thousands of gold pieces that the Spaniards stole from the indians. Now we are in Cali, a city in the south where they are having a festival and we will be here until after new years. We hope to enter Ecuador soon after, but may have trouble leaving as seems to be the trend. We have met quite a few gringos who have been stuck for a long while.

I have tentative plans to come back to California at the end of April as my girlfriend's sister is getting married and she must be home. We are thinking of going to Japan to teach in August and September. Life down here is good and I highly recommend checking out Colombia if you haven't already.

See you sometime,

Adam

Adam Goldberg
mendoendo@hotmail.com

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