So I still have not started work.. There is admin needed and it seems the Bolivians take things at a more leisurely pace!! However I have decided that first I will work at an orphanage for young boys and girls which is a bus ride away (I'm a pro on the buses, and that's saying something!) because that is was I always intended to do plus they need the most help. To think.. A week ago I was deciding between embargo and maremoto and now I'm deciding this!! Maybe after I will work at the other places though. I have also been trying to convince some of the young generation here to join me!
My Spanish is slowly getting there. I am learning simply by having people talk to me in Spanish and having to attempt to understand and reply, and wheneet I learn a new word I write it in my little pocket notebook (thank you Janie Lou!!) however obviously conversations I have are still very slow and probably painful for them! I had been trying to show enthusiasm to everything by saying I love it, so anything I am given, see, eat or people ask about I was saying 'si, te amo!'..... I then found out I'd actually been telling everyone 'i love you'.. Which is, by and large, really embaressing.
Maria, a friend of the family who is my age an lives opposite, took me yesterday with her to university for the afternoon, obviously not into lectures (why only start going to them now!!) but to see and meet her friends. And this morning I went with Marcelo and Marcelo jnr. To the huge, out-of-town market, which was crazy! Its good as these are things the usual tourist often would not see.
The weather is not so sunny now, more just muggy!! So I am not tanned but still looking sweaty and vile!!
Texts, emails, facebooks, letters all welcome!! Missing everyone xx
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