Montañera, por supuesto!

El metro de Medellín comenzó a funcionar el 30 de noviembre de 1995 a las 11 de la mañana. El primer tramo que entró en funcionamiento fue el que une las estaciones Niquía y Poblado, en la Línea A. Posteriormente, la red se amplió hasta Itagüí, con cuatro estaciones más al sur y al oeste, y seis estaciones en la Línea B.

Cuando tenía 18 años se inauguró el primer y único metro en Colombia. Medellín ha sido la única ciudad en lograr esto. Tomó muchos años y mucho dinero, planificación y esfuerzo, pero lo lograron. Fue y sigue siendo todo un logro. No teníamos nada parecido en todo el país, y yo nunca había viajado al extranjero a esa edad, así que, por supuesto, era otra colombiano emocionada por montar en Metro!

Mi memoria está un poco borrosa, pero creo que después de un par de meses finalmente fui a Medellín con amigos, y fuimos a la estación cerca de El Poblado. Estaba con mi amiga P y algunos de sus hermanos y primos. Algunos de ellos ya habían tenido la experiencia, pero mi amiga y yo no, y estábamos súper emocionadas por montarnos en el metro. ¡Montañeras, por supuesto!

Cuando el tren venía a la estación, empezamos a correr de un lado a otro para intentar ser las primeras en la puerta cuando se abrieran, pero como había tantas puertas no podíamos saber dónde se detendría por completo, así que se pueden imaginar la escena de estas adolescentes corriendo frenéticamente.

Además, se suponía que no debíamos cruzar la línea amarilla en ningún momento hasta que hubiera una parada completa, pero mi amiga bromeando empezó a poner la punta del pie sobre la línea, luego la quitaba, luego la volvía a poner, y así sucesivamente. Tan inmadura, pero me da mucha risa recordar algo tan divertido y tonto, osea inmaduras las dos.

Esta memoria me llego a la cabeza por que he estado viendo la novela de RIGO, y ademas de hacerme reir mucho, me hace recordar estas memorias que son tesoritos guardados en archivos de hace mucho tiempo, y me da felicidad poder recordarlos y revivirlos en mi memoria!

ENGLISH VERSION

When I was 18 the first and only metro in Colombia was inaugurated. Medellín has been the only city to pull this off. It took years and a lot of money, planning, and effort but they made it happened. It was and still is quite the accomplishment. We had nothing like it in the whole contry, and I had never traveled abroad at that age, so of course, I was another colombian excited about riding the Metro!

My memory is a bit blurry, but what I remember is that after a couple of months I finally had the opportunity of visiting Medellín with friends, and we went to the station near El Poblado. I was with my friend P and some of her siblings and cousins. Some of them had already had the experience, but my friend and I hadn’t and we were super excited to ride the metro. Montañeras of course!

When the train was stopping, we kept running back and forth to try to be on the first ones at the door when it opened, but because there were so many doors we couldn’t know where it was going to stop completely, so you can imagine the scene of this teenagers running frantically. Also, we were not supposed to cross the yellow line at any time until there was a full stop, but my friend kept joking and putting a bit of her foot over the line, then remove it, then put it back, and like that back and forth. So juvenile, but I can’t help to chuckle remembering such a funny and silly thing.

This memory came to mind because I’ve been watching the RIGO soap opera, and besides making me laugh a lot, it reminds me of these memories that are little treasures stored in files from a long time ago. It gives me joy to be able to remember and relive them in my memory!

Missing the Blog = Blogsick?

I have been away on vacation for about 2 full weeks and have not been able to get to writing anything in a while.

On the journey I kept thinking I need to write about this or that, because of course when you are on a trip you get all kinds of ideas and my fingers were itching to get to a keyboard, but as it turns out, when you are on the go, moving from town to town, you don’t really have too much time to get to a computer, which is great, because that is exactly the point when you go on vacation, you disconnect, you get out of your routine, you get busy visiting places, eating new food, seeing new things and new people, and you also get tired! There can be a lot of walking involved when you are a tourist. So much to talk about, so little time to type! Instead, I took a bunch of pictures so I could sort of remember later, and hoped I could get inspired afterwards.

During the trip I did manage to read, actually, I managed to listen to an audiobook, and that was super cool, because sometimes you just want to chill, but you are not soo tired to sleep yet, and you get to listen to a cool story before going into Zzzz….

Speaking of which, I am feeling sleepy as I am a bit jet lagged… Zzzz, savasana, corpse pose, laying down or whatever you call it sounds like a good plan right now. I will get back soon enough to write about the trip! Writing this bit helped and I so enjoyed the typing today! 🙌