Day 17

The rest of last week at the orphanage was interesting. Some of the women are quite lazy and impatient, they spend the morning watching tv lying on a bed which is supposed to be for the babies to play on and not talking to me or the children much, however the nuns who run the orphanage are very kind which made me feel a lot happier to see. The children are adorable, I spend most of my time just going from baby to baby stopping them crying and playing, apart from this I help with feeding them and cleaning.
On Thursday I also had another Spanish lesson so I'm improving a bit! On Friday I made a fairly spontaneous decision to go to sucre with the other travellers I met in the hostel. There were 2 English guys and 3 Scottish guys, then obviously we met other people in the hostel, like a german girl who had been travelling for 20 months!! We got the bus on Friday afternoon and it was without a doubt the worst bus possible! So after the longest journey through the mountains of Bolivia (obviously I was the only one terrified) we got to sucre on Saturday morning. We spent 2 nights in one hostel which was basically like having our own house and the third night in a really busy hostel run by some crazy Dutch guy. Really liked Sucre, it's smaller and more chilled than Santa cruz, it's supposed to be colder but we were lucky and had sun. So mainly did sightseeing, looked around the markets, sunbathed in the park, big meals and a few nights out. I ten had my first money disaster as my card wouldnt work to book my flight back to Santa cruz so I had to make the first crisis call home! After visiting sucre I've decided I want to do more travelling around so I think I'll head to la Paz in about 2 weeks.
Apart from that I've been just going out for dinners and shopping with Maria, Marcelo jr, Diego, Paola and luis. Unfortunately I'm now bedridden and ill with some kind of infection so I'm pretty bored and feeling rough. I think this weekend we may go gokarting and maybe to aqualand again. The lifestyle here is much more slow pace and chilled out, people don't tend to make plans in advance but I get a bit more restless which is also why I think travelling around a bit more would be a good idea.
Probably will upload some pictures in the next few days.
Lots of love xxxxx