April 24, 2010

excuse the interruption

Hey everyone.  Sorry for the delay in posting.  I have felt a little sick this past week & took my usual blogging time to sleep instead.  Sickness is still hanging on but I am surviving.  Yesterday was the first day I did not sweat, at all!  It was cold & rainy & beautiful!  Of course I was the only one who thought so.   When I got to Sala Nidito yesterday, I walk in & I guess everyone decided to take a "rain day"  because only 6 kids showed up.  6 out of 34.  So we were 4 tias & 6 kids.  It was a lovely relaxing morning.  We took the time to make some pictures for the classroom.  In the afternoon Rose & I decided to play hookey & we trufi'd* it downtown.  She had to go to the post office & I wanted to shop for some more souvenirs.  Man do I have a long list of people I want to buy for!  I got a few more little things which I am VERY pleased with.  Bolivia has makes some very cool stuff. I am most excited to give you all your souvenirs, so if you don't like it, pretend like you do. 

I also bought the movie Avatar for 10 bs.  [7 bs per 1 cdn]  I figure that's ok.  All their movies & music here are pirated.  It's kinda funny to me.  They sell movies here that are still in theatres in Canada.  You can't even find a real copy if you try.  What else to say?  not much.  It's been almost 5 weeks since I got here.  Crazy!  Pretty much halfway done. 

Weather report: cooler, cloudy, very muddy from the rain. Here's a picture of how wet it got yesterday.  I'm glad our trufi didn't stall in that! 


*a trufi is a cross between a taxi & a bus.  It's a car that will stop & pick people up along the way.  It has a set route & you just tell the driver when you want to get off.  Costs 2 bs/person.  They come right by the home & take us within a few blocks of Siete Calle [basically downtown, where all the spokes come together.  

til next time!

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