What’s in a name?

I polled Facebook friends for ideas for this blog.  After some pretty awesome suggestions, I decided on Passports and Preguntas.

What is a passport, you may ask?  Do you have one, you may ask?

A passport is a legal(?) document that allows travel between one country and another.  And yes, I do have a passport!  I’ve had a passport for eight years.  In that span, I’ve been to….five countries.  Two of them I’ve been to twice!  And that isn’t counting Puerto Rico, which is *sort of* like going to another country.  I love traveling.  I studied abroad in Poland twice, took a long weekend trip to Czech Republic on the first visit to Poland, taught English in China, took a group of adoptive families on a homeland journey to Guatemala, and visited my own birthcountry, Colombia, twice.

(Come to think of it, I have two passports.  A U.S. passport mentioned above, and a Colombian passport issued to me as a two month old baby.  I have opinions about passports….more on that later.)

Now that we’ve got passports straight, let’s discuss what a preguntas is.  What is a preguntas?

Okay so it’s actually just preguntas.  No a.  And it’s in Spanish.  One pregunta, many preguntas.  And I have a lot of preguntas.  What is a pregunta?  It’s a question.  I shall be asking a lot of questions.  I’m a very curious person.  I used the Spanish word for question because I’m half in Spanish.  Sort of.  I’m Colombian.  Adopted from Colombia.  A huge part of my identity and now, a huge part of my life, is in Colombia and in the Spanish language.  More on that later too.

Please, post any questions you may have at this time.  I hope this will be an interactive conversation kind of blog.