1 Year in Bogotá

I spent a year in Bogotá following my completion of an undergraduate degree in Latin American studies. I’d been speaking Spanish by that point for half my life, and I wanted formal experience with children. I say this to say, I felt that those things prepared me immensely for living in Colombia.

Colombia and Bogotá specifically is my second home! At the time, our team was small but mighty and I still keep in contact with the people I worked with back then. Everyone made me feel like family, even though I was so far from home.

I loved my school, which was in Soacha, and I made strong and long lasting relationships with my kids. I love them so much and every day with them was a gift. I feel like if you go into this experience with a full heart and want to give all of yourself to your students, you will walk away with no regrets. Many people I worked with had also never met a Black American person, so I loved sharing my culture with my students. In return they gave me so much love.