ARUBA

Have you ever had one of those Yin and Yang experiances - where for every bad event,there's something great? There was a different air of anxiety on this trip. Not the usual, but i could not place the reason. It could have been the hectic upheaval and uncertainty at work and other undesirable obstacles that had been hurled my way, by the name of life. Or was it as simple as a new journey to a region that i had not previously explored, especially without my usual travel companion. Maybe, it was the simple eagerness to escape to the glarious island life. Whatever it was, little did i know that i was in for an excursion of contradictions,in a country that takes multiculturalism and multilingual to a delightfully mind-blowing level.

The ride from the airport revealed the small, fairly flat, arid island with rocky hills in the distance and signature divi-divi trees along the beach. The divi-divi trees reminded me of large bonsai, and are a telltale sign that you are in Aruba. Arubans speak four languages – what I soon discovered was sometimes, they spoke