Monday, January 22, 2007

¿El hijo de Dios?

I've now lost count of the number of people who have told me I look like Jesus Christ. I mostly only get it when the beard's gone wild.

They have this classic image of the great man in this coninent - fairly white (at least relative to locals), long face, long dark brown hair and beard. Sometimes his eyes are bright blue but sometimes brown. He's THE biggest celebrity here.

Yeah I know, the similarities seem minimal to us Europeans, but not to the local people who see few westerners especially in the last 2 countries - Colombia and currently Venezuela.