Day 4

Today was a busy day! We woke up and had pancakes that two of the girls made for all of us for breakfast. Then we went to the market to go shopping. Several of the girls bought blankets, which I will probably do the next time I go, I just didn't see anything that I loved and we were pressed for time. We went to another section and I got a few gifts for friends. Then we went to a jewelry store. The Bolivianita is a stone special to Bolivia that is purple and has yellow in it too. There is a whole legend behind it, but I didn't really understand it because the English translation didn't really make much sense.

After the market, we went to lunch and tried a ton of food. They just kept bringing out more and more! I loved the empanadas (kind of like bread stuffed with cheese, but more puffed up almost like a pastry) and all of the food was delicious. We were all extremely full and had leftovers to bring home, even.

After lunch we went to see the Cristo. It's a statue of Christ, much like the famous one in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The one here is actually bigger though. So we took some pictures there and hopefully I'll be able to post them soon.

Our last stop before coming home was going grocery shopping. Like I mentioned before, we have a bunch of new volunteers coming so we had about 3 carts of groceries full. So it was fun packing all of us plus our shopping items & grocery items all in the little van.

We are supposed to learn how to act like clowns today. It was supposed to happen at 3 but things hardly begin on time here...which is fine by me! haha But yes right now Tomas is installing electricity for our shower so we will have hot water! Yay! I have a picture of him making a hole in the wall which is pretty hilarious.

The rest of the evening should be fairly uneventful and tomorrow we have church. It turns out I'm not going to help with the CDI this week because I haven't had a chance to spend time in the hospital yet like the other volunteers. So instead, I'll be with the new ones coming on Monday. Part of the reason I will be doing this is because none of the new volunteers speak Spanish and I know enough to communicate more or less. So I'll be helping to translate between them since otherwise they would be totally lost.

All right, I'm getting some pictures loaded now so adios!