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"I recently returned to the States from a 28 day trip to Bucaramanga (3 days), Barranquilla (22 days), and Cartagena (3 days). Next I went to Barranquilla. I was a little disappointed in how the city itself looked very dirty, non-descript kind of place. Not a really good vibe to the city at first. I had heard a lot of things about International-Introductions.com Jamie´s place before my trip 90% of it good 10% bad (mostly about the high prices). So I tried it out myself. For about six months I picked out many, many girls from their website and put them on my list to meet when I arrived there for my trip. I also utilized their email address purchase program. I thought it would be a good idea to write to a lot of them prior to my trip so I could "weed out" any that were not compatible with my ideas and tastes. I can tell you that their website is outstanding and easy to use. Their customer service is tremendous. The ladies on their site are very sincere and honest for the most part only 1 out of about 100 asked me for money or anything that made me think she was not sincere compare that with what I will be writing about regarding Cartagena! The process of writing the letters was OK. I don´t know if I would do it again however. Many of the girls I was able to weed out by asking them specific questions seeing if they were reliable with the "webcam dates" if they were talking or writing to other people during the times we were connected online. But there is no substitute for meeting them face to face. If there is no chemistry, there is no chemistry. And a few of the girls I was very sure about that had everything I was looking for I did not feel much chemistry when we were face to face. But a good thing about writing was that it was incredibly useful when practicing my Spanish if only for writing and grammar. Once I actually got to Barranquilla, I was greeted by my guide/interpreter she was outstanding I would give her a score of 98%. She was extremely helpful with everything. She even helped me buy a cell phone there. I was immediately whisked away to begin my many, many group meetings. She was able to interpret everything I needed to say and that the girls were saying to me. Her English was 100% and she was able to understand all my jokes and slang. And she was able to interpret the same kind of things from the girls of course. So during the three days I was there I had private, one on one meal dates with some of my priority choices. So probably nine dates like that. And the group meetings had between 5-15 people in each meeting probably like 8 of these meetings. Everything was incredibly organized, smooth running and professional. I think the girls really took the whole process seriously because of how professionally Jamie runs his place. After one day, I knew I had a big problem I had already met probably 5 girls that would make anyone a perfect wife. And the thing is after each group meeting they asked each of the girls in private to rate me and see if they were interested and almost all were interested in meeting me again. It is not so surprising though, since the way Jamie works it is that you make your selections from the website, he gives the girls your profile and a few photos, and they decide whether they are interested in coming to the meeting in the first place very efficient. Anyway, I went through the whole process. Met a lot of ladies and was very, very, very impressed with the agency and Barranquilla in general. Jamie was onsite much of the time from early in the morning to late at night extremely professional great guy. He made sure everything ran smooth. The girls were incredible. If you are looking for a sincere, loving, caring wife I don´t think you can go wrong in Barranquilla. Almost all were interested in the simple things in life: having a loving family, dancing, cooking, children, going to the beach so refreshing. And even though the life there is very difficult for most of the ladies they had such incredibly positive attitudes toward life and meeting the man of their dreams. The majority of the girls were very young. I am 39. But the good thing is, that not one single girl that I spoke with at the agency or at the malls had any problem with the age difference. They said it was more important how the person was inside, sense of humor, whether or not they lived a healthy lifestyle. They did not like guys who smoked, drank much, or were too serious. For the most part they do not like guys with moustaches and beards. They almost all are serious about dancing. They like to go out a lot but most do not drink much. They like to dance. Well I gave up on finding a wife during that trip after a short while because there were so many choices. I made up my mind to just meet as many ladies as possible, get contact information, and continue the process from home and during subsequent visits to Colombia. But then lightning struck me!!!!!!!!!!!! I had a cancellation with one of the girls from the agency and I had a couple free minutes so I hopped on the computer at the agency and checked their website again. And I found the girl of my dreams. She had just joined the agency I think for only 1 or 2 days. I asked if someone could contact her for me. I was told that I had already used up my days that the agencies obligation to me was already satisfied but "NO PROBLEM WE WILL CALL HER RIGHT AWAY." They had someone contacting her within minutes trying to track her down for me. And within a couple hours, I was talking to my girl on the phone setting up a date with her. We had the first date at "Las Flores". It is a barrio outside of Barranquilla that is along the river. They have the freshest seafood possible. You can see them bringing it in from the little boats from the back of the restaurant. The prices were good. The live music was outstanding. I really loved that place. Well the rest was history. I began to spend all my time with my girl and her family. Her mother even took time off from work without pay to spend time with me and learn all about me. I met the whole extended family, including aunts, uncles, friends, everyone. And instead of going out partying a lot we spent a lot of time with the family. It was very, very nice and different than what goes on here in the States. I felt very comfortable right away and am now engaged to be married. I am returning to visit my girl in October and again in November for her birthday. I am completely satisfied. I have never met a woman like this in my life bright, positive, intelligent, likes to cook, always trying to take care of me, loving, passionate incredible. We have begun the Visa process. She has begun the English classes at Jamie´s agency. Everything is going well. I cannot say enough good things about Jamie and his business approach, the people he has working for him, the whole thing. It was well worth the money spent. It was probably worth twice as much!!!....Nah...., I think I am getting a little out of control now. But I would highly recommend his agency to anyone who is serious about the process of finding the woman of their dreams. And I met several other guys who were there too. And they were all very satisfied as well. One guy was even from Finland I think very happy guy. OK so that was Barranquilla anything else? Let me think extremely hot weather I was sweating my butt off the whole time!!! And I am living in Arizona!!!!!! The last part of my trip was to Cartagena. I was supposed to be there for at least 12 days, but changed my plans when I met my girl and for other reasons that I will be talking about in the next episode. I just want to say that so far I have been to Bogota, Cali, Bucaramanga, Barranquilla, and Cartagena and the people of Barranquilla seem to be the most warm, loving, affectionate out of all of them. Not just because of the fact that my fiancé is from there, but because of almost all the girls I met there. But don´t get me wrong the other cities have fantastic people also. I cannot say more about how many wonderful people I met in all parts of Colombia very nice .
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"This is sort of a delayed trip report or should I say a report regarding two trips to Colombia, one in March and the other that ended August 9th. Since it has been a while since I have posted let me remind everyone that I selected International Introductions because I had never been to Colombia before and I liked the idea that the girls looked at your profile so you are not wasting time with someone who has no interested in you. The reasons I have not posted for a while are many: I was overwhelmed when I returned in March with conflicting emotions of joy and regret. I loved my experience in Barranquilla at Jamie's agency. I was there for 10 days and I met many quality ladies, yet the time went so fast that I was depressed when I came back. For those who have never been to Colombia it is a candy store that can leave you more hungry after than before you arrive. For those of us attracted to bronze women, especially women with nice curves and sexy behinds, Colombia has it and then some. That is the problem, if you can you really call it a problem, it can be too much of a good thing in the sense you can later regret a lost connection with a beautiful woman you might meet because you are curious about what is behind "door number three". There is nothing wrong with that though, it really depends on what you want to accomplish on your trip, since I was looking for serious wife material constantly looking for the next best thing sort of left me feeling empty and depressed when I returned in March. I met a really wonderful woman, but because of my curiosity to "look behind door number three" we only got to spend 1 wonderful day in Cartagena together and then regretfully my trip was over. Anyway, first impressions on my first trip: I landed in Barranquilla on March 16 since I hated to fly at the time I wasn't able to sleep on my flight and when I landed I was kind of thrashed. I had flown from Sacramento the night before to Los Angeles where I boarded a flight to Panama which got me to my final destination. I was met by one of International Introductions interpreters and my first introduction. She was a very attractive 19 year old who still had her braces on. She had been one of my selections but in person she looked so young I kind of felt like a dirty old man with her. I am 39, so I was over twice her age. Also, since I was tired and feeling like I wanted to shave and shower I just wasn't feeling it no matter how cute she was perhaps it was culture shock. Let me say this that before this trip to Colombia I had never been out of the United States except for a few trips to Tijuana and a cruise to Encinada, Mexico I was a very green Gringo indeed. To put it bluntly, it was culture shock to me one is hit by it, at least I was, by the sites of poverty on the road leaving the airport. Barranquilla is a modern city that has modern amenities, but this is a developing nation still, torn by violent struggle. I admit I was scarred my first thought was, "what the hell have I just done?" Eventually, I became acculturated to Colombia and grew to like the city the good and the bad and above all the women. My first day at International Introductions I met ten women seven in a group setting the others on individual dates. Jamie promises to introduce you to at least 40 women and that he did. I stayed in a house that also serves as the offices and group meeting area for International Introductions. It’s a nice house nothing too fancy but nice in a decent area of Barranquilla. My room was comfortable everything was in working order. No television in the room, who needs that though, you won't have the time. The women I met on the whole were very nice some were very educated all of them were ladies. I don't know what I was expecting before I left my impression, probably false, was that Colombian women were very forward. I had visions in my head of being Hugh Heffner Junior, but for me at least that was not the case. The Colombian women who I met had no problem sleeping with you but they did not want you to be dating someone else the next day. In certain respects I was pleasantly surprised. They weren't desperately throwing themselves at this gringo unless I was willing to commit to them. I had my forty women to meet. However, the one who I had a connection with the most I met my first group meeting in Barranquilla she seemed intimidated in the group meeting, but there was something about her that I was drawn to. She was attractive, but so were the others. But to me she radiated a certain sweetness and shyness that I was attracted to she was 31, never married, no children and a doctor as well. I wanted to see more of her, but I thought I owed to myself to make sure she was the one I wanted to spend the bulk of my days in Barranquilla with. So, I spent the majority of my trip trying to find (Latina) Plus, instead of getting to know my original interest better before I left. The day before I left my interpreter rented a car and driver for us on our trip to Cartagena. I believe the cost was the equivalent of $100 US. It may seem a little pricey but I thought it was worth it. The driver was with us all day and would drive us anyway we wished in Cartagena. We did more of the historical tour sites, like the Castle. I love Cartagena too. The old city is surrounded by walls, and the architecture conjures up images of a city in Mediterranean. It’s a beautiful, romantic city. You definitely need more than a day exploring its streets. Anyway, I had to leave the next day and I was feeling sad. I felt something special was growing between (Latina) and I but our time together was ended. We exchanged e-mails and phone numbers. My E ticket was done back to reality. We kept in touch through on line chat and a web cam. We talked about everything and my Spanish has improved. She was an unknown quantity that I wanted to know more about. I had to go back to Colombia to find out if she could be the one and so I did in August. My trip was only five days I did not want to be there too long if things went sour between us, and maybe just enough to meet some fresh faces. Needless to say I didn't need plan B. I also met her family, very respectable, her father is an attorney, and her brother and sister both have college degrees. Even though her siblings are in their mid to late 20's everyone lives at home until they are married Colombians are very family oriented. We took a small tour bus to the resort city of Santa Marta which is Northeast of Barranquilla on the Caribbean. I liked Santa Marta a lot the beaches are much cleaner clearer than Cartagena or Barranquilla. For any South American history buffs Santa Marta is the city where Simon Bolivar died. The house that he died in has been converted to a museum. The downtown area of Santa Marta has a great night life with clubs, restaurants, and people dancing and playing music on the beach. Santa Marta is like a smaller Cartagena more intimate but with less beautiful architecture. Barranquilla is a modern industrial city where on the outskirts by the airport and the waterway of the Magdalena river are the impoverished areas where the term "third world" comes to mind. The downtown skyline and north of it are the areas where you want to be. The Buena Vista Mall is a good place to spot many attractive Colombian women. I found the people very nice kind of a laid back attitude, although I found it difficult to understand their Spanish they speak very low, but rapid. I have some basic Spanish comprehension but found it difficult at first to understand them. Barranquilla really is not what you would call a city for sight seeing. The beaches by it are polluted there are no great architectural structures to feast the eyes on, but the women I found very attractive. The bottom line is, the only reason someone who would want to go to Barranquilla is for the women and Carnival that's it. To say the least I had a wonderful time, and I am planning on going back for a week during the first week in December. If things don't work out between us into something more permanent I have no regrets. I want to thank all the Gringos on this site who inspired me to finally take the plunge into South America. I have experienced a whole new world for that I will always be grateful". |
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OK here we go!!!!!! After reading this board and private messages from many of the guy's on here I decided to call Jamie and go see his agency in Barranquilla. He had one of his translators meet me at the airport with a young pretty woman at 6:00 PM. We rode from the airport to International Introductions office. When I arrived I was taken to my room I unpacked and I had my first group introduction at 7:30 PM I meet 12-14 women from 19 to 29 years of age. After the group intro I went out on a one on one private date. (Day 2) The next day I had a one on one private breakfast date. Then at noon I had my group intro. Here I meet 10-13 women from 19 to 29 years of age. After the group intro I went out for a private one on one date. Then back to the office for a 3rd group introduction where I met over fifteen women age 19-30 years of age. After that I had a one on one private date on the patio. I then was off to a one on one dinner date when dinner was over we went back to the office where I had another one on one private date that went to midnight. Also every night when I got back to the office I spent time talking with Jamie about his business and my dates. Jamie is a total pleasure to speak with and I enjoyed every one of his staff and the house keeper. (Day 3) I had a private one on one private breakfast date. Then I went back to the office for my 4th group intro 12-15 women 19-30 years of age. Then off to a private one on one lunch date then back to Jamie's for my 5th group intro 10-12 women 19-30 years of age. I then had a private one on one date on the patio. Then I had my final group intro at 7:30 PM. Then I was off to a private one on one dinner date. During the whole time I am there I am being asked who I want to meet with in private for one on one date for all day Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I spent the three days going on many one on one dates and even some 2nd and 3rd dates. Do not go to Jamie's place to sleep I was in my room maybe five to seven hours a night total. That is the way I wanted it I wanted to see and meet as many women as I could I will sleep when I get home. Jamie's service is great his staff is outstanding they treated me like a king. I went out on a few dates with his staff. I meet over fifty plus women they all where outstanding and the dates where all great. I am now talking with only a few girls and I am planning on going back I want to take it slow. I find it very hard to go slow I was never treated so nice by so many women but I did. If anyone wants to know more just ask I could write about five more pages but I have work to pay the bills so I can go back very often. Mail me in private and I will answer any of your questions. All I can say is run do not walk to Colombia. You will not understand until you come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I want to thank my new friends on this board and you know who you are here in the states, Canada, and Colombia. I know I left so many things out but it was the best trip I have ever had in my life. I will post a picture of the one I really hit it off with once I know she is the one I am still going slow on this one. |
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"I just got back from my first trip to Colombia last week and thought I should write a report about it while a lot of the details are still fresh in my head. I used Jamie's agency, International Introductions, because it was so highly recommended on this site. Everyone says that Jamie is a perfectionist, and I have to agree, that guy is driven to provide the best possible experience to his clients. His agencies services are pretty spendy, but with him you can be certain you will be receiving exactly what he and his website promises. If you can afford it, definitely make as much use of his service as possible. A little about me: I am 33 years old, never been married, no kids, college educated, definitely not rich. Physically I don't think I am unattractive, but I am not very photogenic I guess. Before I went down I sent the agency some photos of me to show the girls, International Introductions picks one photo and sends it with your profile out to all the women to see who is interested in meeting you. I can't stress enough how important that one photo will be in determining if a girl will agree to meet you or not. You might think these girls are just visa hunters, or looking for a rich guy, or whatever. Not true, I believe from what I've seen that almost all of these girls are looking for a real relationship with a guy they are genuinely attracted to. That being said, the girls basically are going to agree to meet with you based on what they think of your photo, your height, weight, age, and possibly your race. When I got down to Colombia everyone said I didn't look anything at all like my photo, and I was constantly being asked by girls why I sent such unflattering pictures of myself to the agency. I ran into several girls who had declined to meet me, none of them recognized me from my photo and wanted to know why they hadn't been shown my profile, I had to explain that they had seen my profile and had shot me down! My tips for what girls are looking for in your photo:
I had a long trip from Oregon to Colombia, it included a twelve hour layover in Dallas/Fort Worth and I didn't want to shell out for a hotel room, so I hadn't really slept in 36 hours by the time I got to Barranquilla. Feeling tired, stressed, and stinky, that is how I met Girl #1 and my translator. Jamie had told me he had arranged for them to pick me up. He had said that Girl #1 was gorgeous, but even so I was surprised at how attractive she was, I tried to play it cool though, like knockouts pick me up at the airport all the time. The translator was really cool, lots of fun to talk to, and succeed in making me feel at ease very quickly. I had arranged to be in Barranquilla 16 nights, but had only booked a translator for 5 days as I spoke some Spanish. I quickly realized that having a translator around is good for a lot of other things besides translation, and that I probably should have booked her for the entire trip despite the rather expensive rate. What your translator will/should do for you. She will of course translate, but that is not all. She will be your social secretary, keeping track of your many dates, scheduling introductions, suggesting places to take dates, instructing the taxi driver where to go and what is a fair price, telling you what clothes to wear, getting you to an ATM when your cash is low, all manner of things you will take for granted until you don't have her around. She will give you feedback on what she thinks of the girls, give the girls you like feedback to let them know that you are seriously interested in them, She will keep the conversation going if it starts to die, and she will make excuses for you if you are not interested in the girls and want to eject from the date. Anyway, Girl #1, the translator, and I get into the cab and head back to the agency. I notice that the girl has what looks like a huge cubic zircon looking ring on her left hand and I start thinking, "Is this girl engaged already? Did they just twist the arm of some hot girl to come and meet me because they couldn't find anyone else to come pick me up at the airport?" I make conversation, she speaks some English and we talk for a while until we pass by her house where she gets out. My translator talks with her before she goes inside then she asks me what I think of her. I say she seemed nice and very attractive, but mention the ring and that I didn't get the impression that she was that interested in me. Translator informs me that the ring is just a ring, not an engagement ring, and that she'd asked Girl #1 if she was interested in me and that Girl #1 had indicated she was very much interested in me. Good to know, if I had not had a translator with me I would have read that situation completely wrong. I let my translator know I would definitely be interested in meeting Girl #1 again. We get to agency office and I meet Jamie. Nice guy seems kind of serious but then a lot of people get that impression from me to. He seems kind of ticked that Girl #1 didn't accompany me all the way back to the office. I say that it's no big deal that her house was on the way to the office, but that didn't seem to mollify him. He mentions, like everyone else does my entire trip, that I look much better in person and that I did not help myself out with the photos I sent in. He asks me if I noticed the girls in the lobby getting their photos taken for the site asks me if I would like to meet any of them (he will always ask this anytime you are in the office and there are new girls hanging around) they all seemed very attractive so I said sure. Took a quick shower, changed clothes, then my translator got me because my lunch date was there. Lunch date was with one of the girls I had indicated as a favorite. Of my 14 favorites only a few indicated interest so I was kind of excited to meet her. Oh my god was she gorgeous. Probably one of the hottest girls I have ever seen in my life. She was a nurse but looked like a model. Turns out she was a model, but I think that means something different in Colombia… it means she was hired to hang out in bars and to get guys to buy a certain brand of whiskey or something. I was nervous but tried very hard to be charming, she didn't seem to have much to say. Sometimes she just seemed shy at other times disinterested. She looked at her phone a lot to read her text messages during the date which I found rude. Translator decided we needed to go to the shopping center to pick me up some groceries, so we all got in the cab and went to the mall. While translator and I are talking and picking out groceries, this girl walks about 10 steps behind us talking on her cell phone. After the date is over I tell my translator I didn't think it went very well, she agreed, but was surprised when she spoke to my date who seemed to think the date went well and would like to see me again. I thought, hot as she was, I was not going to waste time on a girl who seemed completely bored with me. Went back to the office, changed clothes again, and had my first group introduction. Everyone shows up late in Colombia so girls start trickling in for 45 minutes eventually about ten show up. Last girl shows up about fifteen minutes into the introduction, and apologizes profusely in English which she seems to be fluent in. I would recommend having a list of questions ready, or stories about yourself you wish to share. It is up to you to ask the probing questions to get to know them better; all they are interested in at this point is getting you to pick them. Of the ten girls I felt an attraction to three of them, translator ushered me into my room while she talked to the girls before they left. All of them liked me, but the girl who I liked most (late girl who spoke English) is who I wanted to meet first so we went out to a Mexican restaurant. This girl was also very attractive, she looked nothing like her photo (most of the girls don't) and bore a strong resemblance to Penelope Cruz. She was a nursing student, very bright, charismatic, and sincere. I liked her a lot, maybe too much. Still my first day in Colombia I was still feeling kind of tired and out of it, nervous too. She definitely picked up on that. While Colombian girls like that a North American man will be more polite and less aggressive than a Colombian guy... they still expect a guy to be pretty aggressive and confident. They expect you to put your arm around them, hold their hand, go for the kiss, and do things that physically demonstrate you are a confident man and that you are interested in them. That is pretty much how my first day went. This is turning out to be much longer than I thought it would be. I will continue the rest of this trip report in a 2nd installment I guess". |
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