48,000,000 Colombians Can't Be Wrong: Finding Love In The Land

48,000,000 Colombians Can't Be Wrong: Finding Love In The Land of Shakira, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fernando Botero and Sofia Vergara

When the country of Peru is mentioned, one imagines a peaceful scene of an Andean alpaca grazing along an Incan stone wall. When Ecuador is brought up, we imagine a rain forest panorama of frogs jumping off branches while butterflies mate in the background. When Colombia is mentioned, we envision a post-apocalyptic city full of overturned buses, being pillaged by men in ski masks. It is obvious which country any rational person would seek to avoid while searching for romance. â€œ48,000,000 Colombians Canâ€™t Be Wrongâ€ is a true adventure story about a gringo who travels to Colombia's capital city in search of romance. During his first month in Bogota, Brian falls in with two white, self-assured backpackers who the author describes as, â€œâ€¦not the kind of guys who pump the brakes before going through an uncontrolled intersection.â€ He is then nearly kidnapped during an encounter with a woman he met online, almost becomes business partners with a Korean man in the â€œdiamond businessâ€ and is forced to sleep in the DVD room of his hostel due to lack of funds. Brian quickly regroups after his first month and auditions for the part of â€œcongressional aideâ€ in a Colombian feature film called â€œLeft To Die.â€ He then lands a job as a writer for an English-language newspaper where his first interview is with a â€œsuspected undercover CIA agent.â€ Brian then gets thrown off a TV set for refusing to take off his shirt from under his police uniform. While Brian is not getting thrown off TV sets, he marvels at all the discarded construction materials Colombians throw into pot holes to lessen their depths. Because of this strategy, a bus going over one of these open trenches (full of construction materials) will occasionally sling a chest-high brick through a group of panic-stricken pedestrians. Brian sincerely believed this trip would put him on a track towards a life of excitement, intrigue and exotic women, far from his increasing first world debt. Instead, he unexpectedly falls into a job as an extra in a Colombian soap opera, has panic attacks, watches other gringos lose their marbles and blows half his paycheck on bootlegged DVDâ€™s. Along the journey, he chronicles his friendships, the deranged ex-pats he meets, and his struggles/triumphs, including one fateful night in a Israeli restaurant that would change his life forever.
Country USA
Brand CREATESPACE
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781530862535
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	CREATESPACE
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781530862535
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

48,000,000 Colombians Can't Be Wrong: Finding Love In The Land of Shakira, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fernando Botero and Sofia Vergara