BRONZE | A View From Abroad
A VIEW FROM ABROAD
Columbia By María Adelaida Ospina
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iving in Colombia involves a lot of music and good food, everyday is sunny so you’re really surprised when it rains and doesn’t stop. People look into your eyes and it is as easy to start a conversation, mostly about politics, economics, death or football. Dancing is just our way of walking, food comes in many shapes and colours, right form the earth, although, not everybody has three meals a day, or a job to go to, or a house to live in. Making a living in London, for me, has to do a lot with image and good luck, if you believe you have those qualities and work them, people will take you for who you are because they don’t fool around.
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It is real people that attract me the most, the ones who you can’t put into a category or stereotype because they are so contradictory and full of variation. Boys who dress like little girls and older people wearing fashionable customised garments to go to their serious jobs. Many people walk the streets without trying to attract attention from others, but there are also people who enjoy attention so they experiment with the inner and outer stimulation of personality and character. What we have in common, is the feeling of detachment and the empowering rush of living in nobody’s land therefore, everybody’s land, when you recognise yourself among the surrounding difference.