num_pages: 176
description: Tamalyn Dallal, world reknown bellydancer, teacher, and intrepid traveller takes you on a ropm through Colombia, South America in the 1980's, where she dances for mafiosos, becomes friends with a "Gamine" (street child), gets swept off her feet by a lawyer affiliated with the guerillas, gets stuck in a remote jungle on a broken bus,etc. This is the story of a belly dancer, and of Colombia in the 1980's. "They Told Me I Couldn't" is fascinating, funny, and you won't want to put it down.
language: English
title: They Told Me I Couldn't : A Young Woman's Multicultural Adventures in Colombia
titlecomplete: They Told Me I Couldn't : A Young Woman's Multicultural Adventures in Colombia
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Talion Publishing