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Misspelled Paradise: A Year in a Reinvented Colombia, by Bryanna Plog

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About the Author

In 2011, author Bryanna Plog spent a year in Colombia as a volunteer English teacher through Harvard-based WorldTeach and Colombia-based Volunteers Colombia. She returned to Colombia in 2013 for two weeks to visit old friends and new places. Plog's writing draws from her substantive travels in over 20 countries and her passion for the natural world and history. Plog is also an educator and park ranger with the U.S. National Park Service and she has worked in parks in Utah, Alaska, and California. Originally from Western Washington she now lives and works in New York City.

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Product details

Paperback: 290 pages

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 27, 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1494984024

ISBN-13: 978-1494984021

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.0 out of 5 stars

26 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#1,129,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I bought Misspelled Paradise because I knew that I would be able to relate to the author's story. As an international educator myself, I related to almost all of it. I felt her pain as she suffered through the tropical heat, strange insects, and power shortages. However, I also identified with the warmth expressed by the locals, the gorgeous scenery, and visits she made to quaint villages.Plog's sense of humor was evident throughout the book and I enjoyed her take on her fellow teachers and the students she taught. I haven't traveled to Colombia yet, but her description of Cartegena made me want to go there very soon. I found Plog's memoir a humorous, light-hearted and entertaining read.

Bryanna Plog's, Misspelled Paradise, is insightful and delightful. Her year of teaching in an impoverished community just down the coast from the World Heritage Site and international resort city of Cartagena, is an account that should be read by anyone interested in Colombia. In her year in Colombia, she also visited other regions including the capital, Bogotá and Leticia, in the Amazon.Bryanna goes far beyond a simple account of her observations and travels, to explain the evolution of Colombia and the effects. She came knowing very little and left impassioned by the land and the people.Her book was especially excellent for me as a visitor to Colombia in the year between her teaching and her return visit. However, it is not at all necessary to have been to Colombia, to thoroughly enjoy reading Misspelled Paradise. I highly recommend you do and maybe someday we will all cross paths in Colombia.

I enjoyed reading Bryanna Plog's account of her year living and teaching in Colombia. It is not a travelogue of what to see and what to do, but a heartfelt explanation of the people she met and the places she went as seen through her eyes, discerned through her mind, and experienced through her emotions.I particularly enjoyed her often often humorous descriptions of the difficulties that she encountered and often overcame. It is obvious that she prefers to deal with a bad situation by facing it with a light heart -- sometimes in the form of mocking sarcasm, sometimes through joking incredulity -- rather than wallowing in despair or self-pity.Overall, it was a pleasure to glimpse her genuine affection for the people and their culture. No matter how alien their ways might be to someone from the American Northwest, she seems to meet them where they are without trying to make them become just like her. Yes, she does want to help, (why else would you volunteer to teach for a year in one of the poorest places in Columbia?), but her help would make them better Colombians, not imitation Americans.If you like to expand your horizons by reading of places and people that are different then your own experience, read this book. If you like to read about the "adventures" of traveling to and living in a foreign culture, read this book. And, if you like to read about how a heart can be captivated and captured through a cross-cultural experience, then read this book

At about the 14th description of bad roads and loud music, I put it down. Since I am traveling to Colombia, I was hoping for more substance. I do applaud her year of volunteering to teach there!

Fantastic book! I read this book just before my wife and I traveled to Colombia. We are Americans who travel a lot in Spanish speaking countries and spent our first winter after retiring in one of them. This book captures what it is like to live in a Latin American country, when you get beyond the resorts and all-inclusive enclaves. The author is a young American woman who lives, works, shops, eats, and travels in Colombia for a year when she works as an English teacher in a small and rather poor town in Colombia.The author views things the way an American would, the way a traveler will return home and tell (hopefully) amusing stories about their experiences. She provides good factual background about the area where she teaches and the other areas she visits. Then she describes her experiences visiting these places. She describes her experience as a teacher, her interactions with her fellow American teachers, the local teachers, the students and parents. Compared to life in the US, everyday life in Latin America can be "always an adventure" and the author captures this in a light hearted yet substantive way.

This wonderful book kept me amused and fascinated by telling the story of one woman's exploration of a culture quite different from her own. While telling her personal story, she deftly explored the history, economics, communications, politics, music, education system, travelling conditions for the low budgeted traveler, ethnicity, natural history, and daily life of the people of Colombia. She writes with humor and detail, passion and precision. I very strongly recommend this book, even for those who have no interest in traveling to Colombia, just for the fun of it.

A fun look at a country with color and flair only an English teacher could provide. The words on the page open a world of flavor, sights and smells of a culture I would have most likely never experienced on my own. Through the author's eye's I have been able to take a peek at Colombia's rich heritage, topography, and people. Thank you Bryanna, for a journey I will remember.

I loved this book! The author places you there with her, and her humor is very funny! I am planning a trip to and am going to possibly live in Colombia, and a book like this that holds no punches and is superbly written is invaluable!

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