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Jason Rawding had a dream; a dream to teach English in Bogota, Colombia. The allure of South America came after Jason returned home from a holiday in Peru: within a week of that trip he'd made the decision to resign from his IT job in London and embark on the next chapter of his life. However, he kept his decision to just his closest friends and family - knowing that in some people's minds Colombia meant drug cartels, kidnappings and political instability. Being a no nonsense Yorkshire man, Jason had been right to think that other people's fears would have attempted to jeopardise his dream. As when he announced to his colleagues and friends, close to his departure date, he was off to Colombia, the general reaction was of horror. Roll on three years and Jason has lived and breathed Colombia and other parts of South America and is now boarding a new adventure - that of an entrepreneur: bringing English language skills to a worldwide audience with his new website: Collingua. If you're th