It’s not just any post…It’s a LATIN post: Music: Joe Arroyo
Thank you crappy radio for getting me back to my roots.
So I was driving to the gym and I didn’t have a CD. The music on the radio was just so bad I couldn’t stand it and I was forced to listen to my dad’s CD of Joe Arroyo, a Colombian singer and one of the most famous Salsa artists ever ( I think) (Ashley if you read this, I’ma need you to confirm. haha)
He’s great. Every song, even the ones that weren’t popular were good. Needless to say he put me in a much better mood for the gym that day. 
He’s a classic. So here’s a song.
En Barranquilla Me Quedo
It’s not just any post…It’s a LATIN post!!: TV: Desafio
Desafio: La Lucha De Las Regiones.
I have been hooked on this show since I saw it last year. It’s on the Colombian channel Caracol. The best way to describe it is to say it’s the Colombian Survivor.
There is one that is on the American Spanish Channel (Univision Sundays at 8pm) but I don’t feel it does it justice(they edit it to fit a week’s worth of challenges in 2 hours. You don’t get to know the characters as well as the Colombian one.) but you could watch it I guess.
The season starts with about 10 teams each representing a region of the country ( if it was done here in the U.S. there would be the North team, South, East, West, Midwest…etc.) and they play challenges.
Cycle of Challenges
It’s a cycle of challenges. There are 4 challenges.
Challenge for the Living space.
1st place in this challenge goes to Playa Alta (High beach) where there’s a beach house with plenty of food and a chef who cooks the team dinner. You get to shower and everything. 2nd place goes to a beach that has some food and a hut with hammocks. 3rd place goes to the lower level beach where there’s nothing but coconuts. In the beginning of the game when there are many teams there’s also the last spot where everyone’s crowded in an iron deck….something like that. There’s no food whatsoever and the deck or platform is surrounded by water. Winning this challenge does not mean they are safe from elimination.
Challenge for Safety
This is like the “Survivor” challenges in that the losing team is now in danger and has to get rid of one of its members. There’s still a chance for immunity for one player in the losing team.
Challenge for Immunity
The losing team now competes against each other. The winner gets an immunity bracelet and has the opportunity to say which of his/ her teammates challenge each other in the final challenge.
Final Challenge
Before it officially begins, the immunity winner (he’s from the losing team) and a representative of the winning team stand before the host. The immunity winner must choose a teammate who will definitely be in the challenge as well as suggest another for the Representative to pick. The Representative for the winning team can choose to respect the Immunity winner’s suggestion or pick any other player to put in danger. They compete. The Loser leaves the game.
Then, it starts all over again. When there are not enough people in a team they merge. When one team is left they automatically live in the beach house. Everything else becomes an individual competition until there is one winner.
WHY I RECOMMEND IT
What I love about the show is that they usually play fair, there’s no real backstabbing and its still really cool to watch. Most even show good sportsmanship. Plus as a girl with Colombian parents, you get to root for your region.
But the best thing to watch are their challenges. They are no joke. (see video below.) “Survivor” has nothing on them. You don’t need to understand Spanish to understand what’s going on. Another great thing is that they give a new episode EVERY NIGHT! (except saturdays) That means no waiting around a week like we do here.
If you’re interested you should watch the original Colombian one. Last season’s episodes are online in its entirety on youtube.
If you are REALLY interested in this season then you can watch new episodes every weeknight around 10pm Eastern time here.
They repeat the episode again around 3pm the next day (I don’t know why but they can be a little off by like 10 minutes.)
Clip Time
And now a taste of the difficulty of the challenges. Here’s a clip from Last season. This is the challenge for the living space.
This is day ONE…..
Just in case you got into it….haha….
