I had not considered that there was a midnight charter flight yesterday and as a consequence the light in the waiting room stayed on and the staff used the covered parking until the flight had left. I had two hours sleep, two hours noise and again two hours sleep. I walked the hundred meters to the airport terminal, had a drink, recharged the battery for the camera and worked on the computer on the pictures from yesterday and the diary. I had been behind for more than a month and had finally achieved to catch up completely and definitely did not want to fall behind again.

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A stranger came up to me and started a conversation in American English and quiet quick we came to an interesting level and interesting subjects. We had common opinions on politics, economics, religion, philosophy, life and God. Robert had just arrived from Peru and was heading back home to Popayan in Colombia to meet again with his Colombian girlfriend. He had met her online on a Christian social network four years ago and had left her and Colombia three month ago due to visa problems, could not stay in Ecuador and had been travelling since in Peru. He was around forty years old, good looking, well trained, well spoken, very, very Christian and had been working as an English teacher for the last years. He was working to build up a small tourist tour around the area of Popayan at the Colombian/Ecuador border, visit the city, the thermal waters and the volcano of Mount Puracé. On my way back I would be one of Robert’s clients. A big, big hug to you Robert and thank you very much for the profound, honest and warm conversation see you again soon.

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I had forgotten completely that I wanted to reserve the whole morning for the library and ethnographical museum of Leticia. I shut down the computer and walked to the main square and around the corner to the entrance of the library/museum. The building was of modern architecture, recent construction and painted in pink. The entrance was free, the exhibition started in the outside area with six different theme areas displayed on big waterproof boards, the Amazon River, prehistoric Amazonia, first explorers, indigenous slavery, the view of the naturalists and the rubber fever. I read every single line, I was fascinated by the presentation and I learned a lot of new things about the Amazon and the colonization of the South American continent. The theme areas continued inside, from prehistoric Colombia to present Leticia. Inside the museum offered as well artefacts in glass cabins always right next to the theme boards and a cinema with a presentation of a 15 minute historical film.

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After three hours I left the library/museum and walked to the cyber. The cyber was without air condition, without light and without cyber. The whole street was without electricity and the time given by the energy company to restore was 15:00 hours. I walked around the block and when I came back to the crossroad and the cyber, the police had blocked the streets and the firetruck who had passed me on my way was working on the third house next to my cyber to kill a fire.

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The electricity came back at 15:30 hours and I worked for just an hour before going one more time to the square to watch the arrival of the loro’s. It had been raining since I had left the library/museum and therefore the square today was empty, no Colombian tourists, one German gringo, two policemen and two mobile snack stands. I walked to the airport to work a bit more but this time the airport was without electricity, so I went straight to the warehouse to my bench and listened to the rain hitting the aluminum roof.

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