3/19/08:
Happy Father’s Day!
Well, today was Father’s Day in Bolivia...so Happy Father’s Day to all ya’ll dads out there! :)
We had our little program in the kinder and it went pretty well. The day was really long though. We had classes till 9:45, program from10 to 12, and then I just worked on some stuff in my classroom, and then helped the 5th grade until 3. I am so tired. I got home and had a silpancho with an egg and rice and talked with Eli until she had to go back to college. Wara is out I think for the night and so is Adela. So, I’m here alone tonight. I was supposed to talk to Pr. Roger about tomorrow’s traveling plans...but he wasn’t at school. I also got our new p.e. uniform today. It’s green pants with a thin khaki stripe along the legs, a khaki colored polo shirt with green strips on the sleeves and along the side and a green logo. Then to top it all off we have this lovely khaki and green jacket with our school’s logo on it as well.
I have a 2GB usb drive in the mail for me, so I will soon be able to load the pictures...including the pictures I am about to take with my new p.e. uniform! :)
Well, that’s it for now... I might actually head downtown here in a little bit and call someone...hmm but who?!?! Hehe, oh well, it’ll be a surprise I guess. LOL
See most of you in July! :)
3/20/08:
Well, today were the ‘Olympics’ thingy at school. The morning we rehearsed the marching thing and that was about it.
I went home after school and frantically packed. I was so tired though! I wanted to just sleep. So, I decided to grab a few coca leaves and chew them with gum to try to keep me awake at least until we get on the bus to Sta. Cruz! I know some of you might think that I did a drug but (with all due respect) I did nothing of the sort! Coca leaf is not a drug. Just a mini lesson for ya’ll: only a tiny little piece of a single coca leaf is actually used to make the actual drug called cocaine. The coca leaf itself has a natural ingredient in it that helps you stay awake and gives you energy! It’s not a drug!
Ok, well now that that is over with let me continue on…:)
So, I went to school…still exhausted because I didn’t chew that much coca…LOL
We (kinder and pre-kinder) marched around with the ‘promo’ (senior class) and then played a game with the parents of kinder/pre-kinder and yeah that was seriously about it. So, because Wara and I had to catch a bus that evening for Santa Cruz, I snuck off earlier than the rest of the staff, called some people is MN, and then went home to get my luggage. I had totally misjudged the time, and found out that we could have actually left an hour earlier if I hadn’t called MN…hehe oops…oh well, I had some good conversations so it’s all good!:)
There was a ton of traffic in Cochabamba (p.s. IVANA: pay attention and try to learn how to spell COCHABAMBA!! LOL:)). Because it was ‘Maundy Thursday’ and apparently Catholics have to visit five churches or something like that before midnight for some Easter tradition or something…I have no idea about catholic things…sorry!!:)
So, we eventually made it running as fast as we could with luggage in hand and everything into the bus station and frantically bought the cheapest and soonest bus tickets we could and we were off! We had about twenty minutes to spare before our departure, so we had dinner there… :) We were on a huge ‘bus-cama’ (bus with beds translated) which simply means that the seats were large and had plenty of space for our neighbors and ourselves to recline. It wasn’t too bad! We slept most of the way anyway because it was about 10:30pm when we left the station.
3/21/08:
GOOD FRIDAY!
p.s. DAVID: please please please post those pictures already!!!:)
Well, Wara and I arrived around 7 or 8 am to Santa Cruz. It was almost unbearably hot! Then, we waited a little bit for Pr. Pablo to come and pick us up and then headed to their house. Later that day, when we had freshened up a bit and stuff, we hung out with an old classmate of ours who lives/goes to school there now: Sergio Prado. It was…interesting to see him again (hehe lol:)). He used to be the shyest person alive when I knew him and now…well, he’s not…he’s camera shy so there will probably not be any pictures of him (well, a few of him being punched by me…haha lol David!!!:)).
We went to ‘yogen-fruz’ and had some scrumptious frozen yogurt with fresh frozen fruit….yummmm!!! :) Allison I took pictures and thought of you and mom and wished so badly that yogen fruz was still in Coch! :)
Later, we picked up his brother, sister in law and nephew and drove to the cine center to decide if we wanted to see a movie. We chose not to and instead Wara and I raced in the arcade….and I lost! I blame Sergio of course because he kept bugging me and kicking my seat! :)
Then, we went walking around the plaza there and there were a bunch of catholics there and there was a parade and they were singing depressing songs and yeah…
Well, then we headed home and slept on mattresses on the floor in a room there because all their beds are in Cochabamba! :)
3/22/08:
This day we woke up and got ready to go swimming! YAY! I was excited. We didn’t go to a pool or anything though. We actually went to this BEAUTIFUL lagoon in these dunes…I don’t even know how to explain it. We drove for a while and seemed to be heading into this desert type place and then suddenly out of nowhere it seemed, over these dunes we came across these amazing bodies of water! We parked near one and walked a ways to a lovely little one and then over another dune and all of the sudden we see this even more beautiful body of water and larger…and set up our bonfire! I have some pictures, but of course you will unfortunately have to wait until I have better luck with loading pictures here! :) If I were a better writer I would spend be more able to explain the beauty of it all…plus I have a lot of notes to catch up on…hehe stupid procrastination and laziness and sickness…:)
3/23/08:
Happy EASTER Sunday! :)
I miss LifeChurch SO mucho! Did I mention yet that Easter isn’t celebrated nor acknowledged by the Christian church here?! Yeah well it’s not! I was shocked! I was so homesick the whole entire Easter holiday for my LifeChurch family!
Plus, to top the day off I had horrible chills…yep chills! In the tropical, hot state of Santa Cruz I was freezing! I was so sick the whole day! :(
That evening, Wara and I headed back to Cochabamba on a bus that was supposed to be a ‘buscama’ but was not! I was sick, it was uncomfortable and it was a long ride! Not a fun day! :)
3/24/08:
Wara and I arrived early this morning from Santa Cruz. I got dropped off at school from the bus and Wara stayed on with my luggage until the terminal. I don’t even know just how early I was to school...it was at least an hour though. I was sick the whole ride back from Santa Cruz, and so I couldn’t make it through the day. I locked myself in the bathroom for two hours at school because i felt so sick. Then, the secretary got me and gave me some tea and a Tylenol. But, it didn’t help too much...it’s about 8pm here and I feel just as bad. So, I left in a taxi. When I got home, there were some campesinos (I think) outside of the house and they were asking me for something to work on the road with. I had no idea what they were saying...I am also quite delirious. Then, when I went inside, I just collapsed onto my bed and was asleep for about 6 hours! I took a shower, and now I am just sitting here typing this.
That’s it for the update... :)
oh wait! Just kidding....here’s one more day! :) LOL
3/25/08:
Well, I made it to school today but still had a horrendous stomach ache. I was told last night by Adelita that they don’t boil the water in Santa Cruz...so that is most likely the cause of my horribly acute pain. Then, at lunch, Jessika (ok I apologize for always spelling her name wrong, but I don’t know how it is spelled! :)) told me that I might have Amoebas (sp?) aka parasite/s because of the bad water I drank. No one had told me that they took it straight from the tap! Had I known that I definitely would not have even touched it! Well, too late now. Now all I need to do is somehow figure out a time and day to go back to the doctor and probably have to do those horrible traumatizing tests all over again!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :( I am not a very happy camper right now! Please pray that I don’t have to do those tests again. But if I do, please pray that I can do just get them over with fast. And if I have to be put on that darn diet again...please pray for my strength! Actually, please just pray that this just gets healed and I don’t have anything! :)
Get it? Got it? GOOD!
~Emily :)
Happy Father’s Day!
Well, today was Father’s Day in Bolivia...so Happy Father’s Day to all ya’ll dads out there! :)
We had our little program in the kinder and it went pretty well. The day was really long though. We had classes till 9:45, program from10 to 12, and then I just worked on some stuff in my classroom, and then helped the 5th grade until 3. I am so tired. I got home and had a silpancho with an egg and rice and talked with Eli until she had to go back to college. Wara is out I think for the night and so is Adela. So, I’m here alone tonight. I was supposed to talk to Pr. Roger about tomorrow’s traveling plans...but he wasn’t at school. I also got our new p.e. uniform today. It’s green pants with a thin khaki stripe along the legs, a khaki colored polo shirt with green strips on the sleeves and along the side and a green logo. Then to top it all off we have this lovely khaki and green jacket with our school’s logo on it as well.
I have a 2GB usb drive in the mail for me, so I will soon be able to load the pictures...including the pictures I am about to take with my new p.e. uniform! :)
Well, that’s it for now... I might actually head downtown here in a little bit and call someone...hmm but who?!?! Hehe, oh well, it’ll be a surprise I guess. LOL
See most of you in July! :)
3/20/08:
Well, today were the ‘Olympics’ thingy at school. The morning we rehearsed the marching thing and that was about it.
I went home after school and frantically packed. I was so tired though! I wanted to just sleep. So, I decided to grab a few coca leaves and chew them with gum to try to keep me awake at least until we get on the bus to Sta. Cruz! I know some of you might think that I did a drug but (with all due respect) I did nothing of the sort! Coca leaf is not a drug. Just a mini lesson for ya’ll: only a tiny little piece of a single coca leaf is actually used to make the actual drug called cocaine. The coca leaf itself has a natural ingredient in it that helps you stay awake and gives you energy! It’s not a drug!
Ok, well now that that is over with let me continue on…:)
So, I went to school…still exhausted because I didn’t chew that much coca…LOL
We (kinder and pre-kinder) marched around with the ‘promo’ (senior class) and then played a game with the parents of kinder/pre-kinder and yeah that was seriously about it. So, because Wara and I had to catch a bus that evening for Santa Cruz, I snuck off earlier than the rest of the staff, called some people is MN, and then went home to get my luggage. I had totally misjudged the time, and found out that we could have actually left an hour earlier if I hadn’t called MN…hehe oops…oh well, I had some good conversations so it’s all good!:)
There was a ton of traffic in Cochabamba (p.s. IVANA: pay attention and try to learn how to spell COCHABAMBA!! LOL:)). Because it was ‘Maundy Thursday’ and apparently Catholics have to visit five churches or something like that before midnight for some Easter tradition or something…I have no idea about catholic things…sorry!!:)
So, we eventually made it running as fast as we could with luggage in hand and everything into the bus station and frantically bought the cheapest and soonest bus tickets we could and we were off! We had about twenty minutes to spare before our departure, so we had dinner there… :) We were on a huge ‘bus-cama’ (bus with beds translated) which simply means that the seats were large and had plenty of space for our neighbors and ourselves to recline. It wasn’t too bad! We slept most of the way anyway because it was about 10:30pm when we left the station.
3/21/08:
GOOD FRIDAY!
p.s. DAVID: please please please post those pictures already!!!:)
Well, Wara and I arrived around 7 or 8 am to Santa Cruz. It was almost unbearably hot! Then, we waited a little bit for Pr. Pablo to come and pick us up and then headed to their house. Later that day, when we had freshened up a bit and stuff, we hung out with an old classmate of ours who lives/goes to school there now: Sergio Prado. It was…interesting to see him again (hehe lol:)). He used to be the shyest person alive when I knew him and now…well, he’s not…he’s camera shy so there will probably not be any pictures of him (well, a few of him being punched by me…haha lol David!!!:)).
We went to ‘yogen-fruz’ and had some scrumptious frozen yogurt with fresh frozen fruit….yummmm!!! :) Allison I took pictures and thought of you and mom and wished so badly that yogen fruz was still in Coch! :)
Later, we picked up his brother, sister in law and nephew and drove to the cine center to decide if we wanted to see a movie. We chose not to and instead Wara and I raced in the arcade….and I lost! I blame Sergio of course because he kept bugging me and kicking my seat! :)
Then, we went walking around the plaza there and there were a bunch of catholics there and there was a parade and they were singing depressing songs and yeah…
Well, then we headed home and slept on mattresses on the floor in a room there because all their beds are in Cochabamba! :)
3/22/08:
This day we woke up and got ready to go swimming! YAY! I was excited. We didn’t go to a pool or anything though. We actually went to this BEAUTIFUL lagoon in these dunes…I don’t even know how to explain it. We drove for a while and seemed to be heading into this desert type place and then suddenly out of nowhere it seemed, over these dunes we came across these amazing bodies of water! We parked near one and walked a ways to a lovely little one and then over another dune and all of the sudden we see this even more beautiful body of water and larger…and set up our bonfire! I have some pictures, but of course you will unfortunately have to wait until I have better luck with loading pictures here! :) If I were a better writer I would spend be more able to explain the beauty of it all…plus I have a lot of notes to catch up on…hehe stupid procrastination and laziness and sickness…:)
3/23/08:
Happy EASTER Sunday! :)
I miss LifeChurch SO mucho! Did I mention yet that Easter isn’t celebrated nor acknowledged by the Christian church here?! Yeah well it’s not! I was shocked! I was so homesick the whole entire Easter holiday for my LifeChurch family!
Plus, to top the day off I had horrible chills…yep chills! In the tropical, hot state of Santa Cruz I was freezing! I was so sick the whole day! :(
That evening, Wara and I headed back to Cochabamba on a bus that was supposed to be a ‘buscama’ but was not! I was sick, it was uncomfortable and it was a long ride! Not a fun day! :)
3/24/08:
Wara and I arrived early this morning from Santa Cruz. I got dropped off at school from the bus and Wara stayed on with my luggage until the terminal. I don’t even know just how early I was to school...it was at least an hour though. I was sick the whole ride back from Santa Cruz, and so I couldn’t make it through the day. I locked myself in the bathroom for two hours at school because i felt so sick. Then, the secretary got me and gave me some tea and a Tylenol. But, it didn’t help too much...it’s about 8pm here and I feel just as bad. So, I left in a taxi. When I got home, there were some campesinos (I think) outside of the house and they were asking me for something to work on the road with. I had no idea what they were saying...I am also quite delirious. Then, when I went inside, I just collapsed onto my bed and was asleep for about 6 hours! I took a shower, and now I am just sitting here typing this.
That’s it for the update... :)
oh wait! Just kidding....here’s one more day! :) LOL
3/25/08:
Well, I made it to school today but still had a horrendous stomach ache. I was told last night by Adelita that they don’t boil the water in Santa Cruz...so that is most likely the cause of my horribly acute pain. Then, at lunch, Jessika (ok I apologize for always spelling her name wrong, but I don’t know how it is spelled! :)) told me that I might have Amoebas (sp?) aka parasite/s because of the bad water I drank. No one had told me that they took it straight from the tap! Had I known that I definitely would not have even touched it! Well, too late now. Now all I need to do is somehow figure out a time and day to go back to the doctor and probably have to do those horrible traumatizing tests all over again!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :( I am not a very happy camper right now! Please pray that I don’t have to do those tests again. But if I do, please pray that I can do just get them over with fast. And if I have to be put on that darn diet again...please pray for my strength! Actually, please just pray that this just gets healed and I don’t have anything! :)
Get it? Got it? GOOD!
~Emily :)
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