Hi guys!
I'm going to talk about an experience in 2008
Always
I’ve thought that the trips are the best experiences of my life. Since I was
child I enjoyed go out of the city and to know new places, new streets, new
people, new traditions, new flavors...
When
I was teenager, I started to see the countries of Latin America as my prefered
places for to visit, then of I began the university and until now I’ve been
sure that this continent have many cultural treasures. I think that my profession and my interest for to travel are dependent. In 2008 I went to México
to International Ecohealth Forum 2008, where I talked about my poster:
"The Epidemic Influence of 1918 in Medellín".
I
looked newspapers from beginning of the 20th century, El Colombiano newspaper and El Correo Liberal newspaper. I
enjoyed the alarming news about the arrival of influence in Medellin, which was
just small town. Drugstores and candy companies promised to cure the epidemic
with its products!!
“Eucaliptus and Maltina candy, against influence
National Company of Cookies and Candy”
El Colombiano, november 6,
1918, p.3
The
International Ecohealth Forum 2008 happened in Merida city, Yucatan Peninsula,
in the Maya land. So, I took advantage and knew some Mayan ruins as Uxmal and Chichén
Itzá. Since several years I’ve been interested in indigenous cultures and I’ve
thought that they haven’t been very valued for many Latin American people.
Kukulkán
Pyramid in Chichén Itzá. December, 2008.
Karina Salgado
Historian
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