Last day in Bogota

Today was our last day in Bogota. Tomorrow morning we are leaving for Manizales!

Today has been rather interesting - we had three short meetings with the health department, the "doctrine" and security department, and with socorrismo (search and rescue) department. After that we were shown around in the district department - met a a lot of volunteers and saw with what and how they are working.

We also got to have a short meeting with the President of Colombia Red Cross. He was such a nice man! He is the youngest President in Colombias history - only around 47 years old. He was so nice- took time to sit down with us, and chat for a while - even though he had a big meeting going on in the next room. He will try to come to Manizales while we are there, so maybe we`ll see him again :)
We also met the previous president- who resently resigned because of illness. He`s a lovely, old man who also seemed interested in us and our work.

After work we went downtown with Olguita (Jose Rauls secretary) and another volunteer - to see the museum. The plan was to go up to Montserrate - a mountain with a beautiful view. But it was so clody that we desided to postpone in to the next time we come to Bogota. The rest of the night we spent packing out suitcases (yes, suitcaseS..), eating donuts and watching tv..
Then we had to say goodbye to Olesya - our new friend who is living in the apartment we`ve been staying in since we arrived. We will be picked up at 06.30 in the morning, so we had to say goodbye tonight. This was a bit sad - since Olesya is a really nice girl. But we hope to see her again real soon! :)

We`re ready for Manizales! Vamos!