Medellin Reports

[QUOTE=Balboa;2545124]You're right!

Speaking Spanish not required.

Fun can certainly be had, just like you have.

Lots of other factors; personality, looks, chemistry, money of course, Lol.

Speaking Spanish, however, brings it to another level!

Pretty much common sense.[/QUOTE]Unless you live somewhere that gives you the opportunity to practice, learning a new language is challenging. You can learn the words, but when the native speakers start hurling words at you, mixed with slang and idioms, it all goes out the window.

Buy the ticket, take the trip and you'll have a lot more incentive to learn the language. If you wait until you're fluent, you'll never leave home.

[QUOTE=Balboa;2545124]You're right!

Speaking Spanish not required.

Fun can certainly be had, just like you have.

Lots of other factors; personality, looks, chemistry, money of course, Lol.

Speaking Spanish, however, brings it to another level!

Pretty much common sense.[/QUOTE]2nd this. When I started out as a noob with barely any Spanish, I was ignorant thinking my experience was better than anyone else's mongering routine without Spanish. God, what a fool I was to think this. Learning Spanish these 5 years has been worth it. Freebies, civie hotties traveling with me to other countries, and just overall better treatment from all walks of life when venturing out in any Spanish speaking country. Spanish is not required but without it, missing out big time!

Report from my first trip in Jan. So I did a lot of ground work on CC and fb, big mistake. No preplanning with these chicas is required. Just rock up and contact as you go. Anyway I started talking regularly with a chica about 2 months prior to my trip, I had mixed feelings about her, especially as she broke the golden rule of asking me to send her money. Normally that is an instant red card but I thought it would be interesting to hit the ground running and meet someone I had been talking to for a while.

On route to Colombia overall I had bad vibes from this chica and my gut instinct which is usually right is telling me she is no good so on the plane I decide to block her. Then a few hours later while still travelling a chica source / guide that was recommended on here informs me there will be a lockdown / curfew and the girls are running for the hills, so I think damn I have to unblock CC girl.

After travelling for over 27 hours with little sleep and a number of delays my driver is still waiting and I have my first glimpse of Colombia, I am exhausted and tell my driver the only thing I need is water and a few beers. He stops the car and I am about to dash to the corner store and he tells that its safer if he goes and this makes me kinda concerned about saftey.

Fast forward to my 2nd or 3rd night after finally getting sleep and rest figuring out a few things I am in contact with CC girl and she is on her way to San Peter. I go down to reception and I am surprised that she looks more beautiful in real life but the moment I meet her in reception I get the bad vibes again.

In my apartment we simply don't connect and she's visibly frustrated that I don't speak Spanish. After trying to settle in with her with music food and drink she starts going on about weed. Now I don't do drugs of any kind and if a girl wants to smoke weed I would be fine with that but nothing else because I believe it's just asking for trouble. So she keeps going on about this weed and its starting to annoy me. She then says she has a friend on the way with weed and asks if I will pay for it, it wasn't so expensive and I think if this keeps her quiet for a while then ok.

Then she says she also needs rum and her friend is on the way. I now know its always good to have a bottle of rum in your gaff for chicas. A few minutes later she says we have to go, I am like where. She says her friend is almost here and we will have to go to pick up the rum and weed. I agree but then all kinds of scary things start running through my mind especially as there is a blacked out car downstairs waiting. I am new in Colombia, I am worried about safety, I don't know the city and I am about to get into random car around midnight with random people to go god knows where. Will I end up dead? Looking back I think this was a dumb move.

So we are in the car and she says we are going to Poblado. I read about Poblado and it seemed like we were driving away from the city and I was real nervous at this stage. So anyway we get to Poblado and we get to an apartment where a guy meets us, he turns out to be a cool guy from I think from Costa Rica with a little bit of English. She tells me to say we have been friends for years and the guy tells me in English he knows her from CC and she told him to also say they have been friends for years.

He was actually having a bit of a party with a few others and it turned out to be interesting but my chica was real distant we me and he also got annoyed with her as she kept turning the music up too loud.

To cut a long story short. We made it back to mine safely and then she complained she had no coke for the rum, after that was fixed she complained she had no lighter for her weed. I had already written this chica off long ago as she was a complete mood killer and slept without even smashing her, then kicked her out the next morning with a few thousand pesos so she could take the metro or whatever I didn't care.

Lesson learned, always listen to that little voice in your head.

[QUOTE=JohnnyO;2545253]Report from my first trip in Jan. So I did a lot of ground work on CC and fb, big mistake. No preplanning with these chicas is required. Just rock up and contact as you go. Anyway I started talking regularly with a chica about 2 months prior to my trip, I had mixed feelings about her, especially as she broke the golden rule of asking me to send her money. Normally that is an instant red card but I thought it would be interesting to hit the ground running and meet someone I had been talking to for a while.

On route to Colombia overall I had bad vibes from this chica and my gut instinct which is usually right is telling me she is no good so on the plane I decide to block her. Then a few hours later while still travelling a chica source / guide that was recommended on here informs me there will be a lockdown / curfew and the girls are running for the hills, so I think damn I have to unblock CC girl.

After travelling for over 27 hours with little sleep and a number of delays my driver is still waiting and I have my first glimpse of Colombia, I am exhausted and tell my driver the only thing I need is water and a few beers. He stops the car and I am about to dash to the corner store and he tells that its safer if he goes and this makes me kinda concerned about saftey.

Fast forward to my 2nd or 3rd night after finally getting sleep and rest figuring out a few things I am in contact with CC girl and she is on her way to San Peter. I go down to reception and I am surprised that she looks more beautiful in real life but the moment I meet her in reception I get the bad vibes again.

In my apartment we simply don't connect and she's visibly frustrated that I don't speak Spanish. After trying to settle in with her with music food and drink she starts going on about weed. Now I don't do drugs of any kind and if a girl wants to smoke weed I would be fine with that but nothing else because I believe it's just asking for trouble. So she keeps going on about this weed and its starting to annoy me. She then says she has a friend on the way with weed and asks if I will pay for it, it wasn't so expensive and I think if this keeps her quiet for a while then ok.[/QUOTE]I didn't make a CC account but I started a LMC account over all I still am curious to try it out and see what I can land or even start a tinder for Colombia I will. Be there mid April for 10 days. I do speak Spanish and I am Latin so I hope this helps a bit regarding the chicas. Would you completely avoid the online dating scene all together if you had to do it again.

[QUOTE=Gbaby32;2545277]I didn't make a CC account but I started a LMC account over all I still am curious to try it out and see what I can land or even start a tinder for Colombia I will. Be there mid April for 10 days. I do speak Spanish and I am Latin so I hope this helps a bit regarding the chicas. Would you completely avoid the online dating scene all together if you had to do it again.[/QUOTE]No I would never avoid it, its another one of many options in Colombia and I met the best chica of the trip on CC. The point is, for my own personal needs there is absolutely no need to waste time trying to prepare anything in advance and that is something I would never do again. When you get there you just contact them and ask them what they doing and if they want to meet, it's as simple as that. The other girl I met came over and I never expected she would stay a few days and that I would spend so much time with her on my trip.

Television and other video media help.

[QUOTE=JjBee62;2545185]Unless you live somewhere that gives you the opportunity to practice, learning a new language is challenging. You can learn the words, but when the native speakers start hurling words at you, mixed with slang and idioms, it all goes out the window.

Buy the ticket, take the trip and you'll have a lot more incentive to learn the language. If you wait until you're fluent, you'll never leave home.[/QUOTE]

This is a recurring forum theme. The other perennial conversations are ATMs (with sub-category Scwhab vs. The global fintech industry) and facebook / tinder / colombiacupid etc. If the circular conversations did not happen every few weeks I would suggest a separate thread be set up for them. It's not a valid suggestion because for some reason the forum stays in a cyclical focus on these three conversations.

Veering off those topics for a moment, I noticed yesterday what another poster mentioned about more police than usual around Plaza Botero. I'm guessing it is for reasons of Semana Santa and coronavirus restrictions enforcement. For what it's worth an uber drive told me he's been making frequent trips to and from the airport for the past week. So it seems it's true tourism is on the upswing.

[QUOTE=Maelstrom;2545224]2nd this. When I started out as a noob with barely any Spanish, I was ignorant thinking my experience was better than anyone else's mongering routine without Spanish. God, what a fool I was to think this. Learning Spanish these 5 years has been worth it. Freebies, civie hotties traveling with me to other countries, and just overall better treatment from all walks of life when venturing out in any Spanish speaking country. Spanish is not required but without it, missing out big time![/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=JohnnyO;2545294]No I would never avoid it, its another one of many options in Colombia and I met the best chica of the trip on CC. The point is, for my own personal needs there is absolutely no need to waste time trying to prepare anything in advance and that is something I would never do again. When you get there you just contact them and ask them what they doing and if they want to meet, it's as simple as that. The other girl I met came over and I never expected she would stay a few days and that I would spend so much time with her on my trip.[/QUOTE]Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

If you're moving to Medellin and planning to spend the rest of your life there, get married and all that, there's no reason to start talking to girls before you get there. You'll find much better options every day.

If you're going to Medellin for a short vacation, there's no need to start talking to girls before you get there. You'll end up locked on to a few girls and you'll miss out on all the opportunities.

These girls can go from not knowing anything about you to wanting to marry you in less time than it takes to figure out why all of them are saying "mor."

[QUOTE=TheTallMan;2545153]Good to see your post. Send me a PM no earlier then one week before you arrive in Medellin and yes if I am not traveling I will take you up on that beer, heck their about 3 mil here.

The Tall Man.[/QUOTE]Sounds good, will do. I guess I'll have to buy a subscription to do that? BTW as an aside I know you spent some time in Tijuana. Any knowledge of any spots similar to Centro or San Diego areas in Medellin there? Much appreciated.

[QUOTE=JohnnyO;2545294]No I would never avoid it, its another one of many options in Colombia and I met the best chica of the trip on CC. The point is, for my own personal needs there is absolutely no need to waste time trying to prepare anything in advance and that is something I would never do again. When you get there you just contact them and ask them what they doing and if they want to meet, it's as simple as that. The other girl I met came over and I never expected she would stay a few days and that I would spend so much time with her on my trip.[/QUOTE]Well Colombian cupid is for someone looking for serious relationships and not just sexual encounters. Its wastage of time and money for mongers. They say that renting is cheaper then owning. So why waste time and money on CC, instead find chicas in centro, casas and no strings attached.

[QUOTE=HappyShiva;2545372]Well Colombian cupid is for someone looking for serious relationships and not just sexual encounters. Its wastage of time and money for mongers. They say that renting is cheaper then owning. So why waste time and money on CC, instead find chicas in centro, casas and no strings attached.[/QUOTE]I understand your point of view maybe a tinder would be easier, I will be enjoying everything Medellin has to. Offer but of I could score good and maybe snag a new friend non pro it would also appeal to me plus what's a months worth of money to try the paid version is all I am saying and was my thinking. But in the end I guess to each his own?

There is no need to be a gringo and monger in El Centro to be robbed. You could be Colombian senior citizen and spend time with friends in cafe in Envigado:

[URL]https://www.facebook.com/PrensaPaisaOficial/videos/735934343787428/[/URL]

As it was advised many times here before: please be careful EVERYWHERE and leave you EXPENSIVE phones at your hotel / AirBnB / home and never resist!

[QUOTE=JjBee62;2545185]Unless you live somewhere that gives you the opportunity to practice, learning a new language is challenging. You can learn the words, but when the native speakers start hurling words at you, mixed with slang and idioms, it all goes out the window.

Buy the ticket, take the trip and you'll have a lot more incentive to learn the language. If you wait until you're fluent, you'll never leave home.[/QUOTE]Haha, yes! By all means leave home and go enjoy!

I've been lucky that my work has had me in Latin countries and Brazil for over 25 years now!

So I acclimated and accustomed to the language (s).

Definitely don't wait till you can speak!

Go have fun!

I was just pointing out the obvious, that it gets better with the language skills.

Peace.

[QUOTE=Knowledge;2545307]This is a recurring forum theme. The other perennial conversations are ATMs (with sub-category Scwhab vs. The global fintech industry) and facebook / tinder / colombiacupid etc. If the circular conversations did not happen every few weeks I would suggest a separate thread be set up for them. It's not a valid suggestion because for some reason the forum stays in a cyclical focus on these three conversations..[/QUOTE]I went to Bellen today to swim laps and while riding in the cab in this Barrio to El Centro I saw the slender taller man walking on a side street and should of stopped to offer him a ride to ground zero, but apparently he wasn't headed there as I didn't seem him there in the afternoon.

It's been awhile since there's been a flood of Fayboo and casa posts from guys on the ground here. Perhaps there is a shift of mongering here at this point in time as it sure appears as though El Centro has been packed with gringos. I can spot them from a mile away, and have seen the same guys everyday, along with new ones. I can't wait until Asia opens back up, not only to go there myself, but also selfishly for less mongers to come here.

Palm Sunday in El Centro was slow as I showed up at 1 PM and left after blowing a load at 4 PM. To my dismay I unknowingly chatted up a civilian not knowing it and was politely told she wasn't working. I always look for someone I have never seen at ground zero before and she was tall and slender. I also approached a thin pretty Colombian who quoted me 25 K for a rato, but refused a BBBJ, so I passed on her, and an older dinky thing approached me to go to the room whom I have never seen before, and said it would only be 20 K and I could pay afterward, but was to aggressive so I told her no. I also was approached by a Chica I had been with about a year ago, and told her no, and after an hour I thought maybe I should of went with her, but she was than being bought some beers by some Colombians and I gave her the nod but she couldn't leave which was totally understandable.

Pretty slim pickings with lot's of beached whales, and some very desperate Chicas giving me the google eye. I was getting tired and after about two hours of taking laps one of my favorite deep throat BJ Chica's was hanging at the fountain, upon spotting her I gave her the nod and ten minutes later I was flat on my back getting the Hoover vacuum treatment.

[QUOTE=Knowledge;2545307]This is a recurring forum theme. The other perennial conversations are ATMs (with sub-category Scwhab vs. The global fintech industry) and facebook / tinder / colombiacupid etc. If the circular conversations did not happen every few weeks I would suggest a separate thread be set up for them. It's not a valid suggestion because for some reason the forum stays in a cyclical focus on these three conversations.

Veering off those topics for a moment, I noticed yesterday what another poster mentioned about more police than usual around Plaza Botero. I'm guessing it is for reasons of Semana Santa and coronavirus restrictions enforcement. For what it's worth an uber drive told me he's been making frequent trips to and from the airport for the past week. So it seems it's true tourism is on the upswing.[/QUOTE]Absolutely its a re-occurring topic every Spanish speaking country monger forum. I never bring it up I only chime in because there will always be new mongers asking mentioning, asking, or expressing their ideas on the subject. It should be stickied imo every forum. It will be asked again again even after me and you are long gone but as long as I'm here I will always put my 2 cents and encourage mongers to put some effort to learning Spanish.