Bh H Hostel Concordia Cochabamba

... visit both the Salar de Uyuni and Machu Picchu in the twenty days we have together before Jessy leaves. In the end, however, we decided that Jessy would regret it if we didn´t visit, so we gave Tany´s aunt a call and asked her if it would be cool if we stopped by the next day. She assured it was and off to Cochabamba we went.<br><br>We didn´t arrive until almost 10 PM, so we decided it best to wait until the next day to call. We spent ...

<br>Hi everyone!! sorry it has taken me a while to write again, i dont often get the time. Again i apologize for the following spelling mistakes but it is a foreign keyboard!! i will try to write more often but so much has happened that i would need to spend hours and hours on this computer to describe it all! Life out here is difficult, i would be lying if i said that this was easy and also if i said i was enjoying it 100%. It is so poor out here that it is ...

... i did manage to understand most of what i was being told! I therefore can confidently say i have reached the level of understanding and speaking enough spanish to get by, and can absolutely understand and answer the twenty questions asked of me by random strangers about every aspect of my life, ha. <br><br>By the end of five weeks in the Sustainable Bolivia house i had managed to make a few friends, whom i was sad to be leaving (but ...

... everything from clothes to electrical items. There are loads of knock-offs mainly DVDs but also label goods - a bit like in Asia. Joel bought himself a watch - we are assured not a fake - but looks nice and works...so far. Before you think it´s all fluff we went to a wonderful classical concert in the church next to the Cochabamba Hotel (former nunnery of the church). They played Hayden and Mendelson and the acoustics were ...

... i was considered not fully qualified and placed in the category of auxillary nurse (the equivalent of enrolled nurse at home). Three: we all know mums and babies and children are not my strong point, but it turns out thats what primary health care is (well i did know that) and that the nurses job in this particular clinic is to take the height, weight (no electronic scales!), and temperature (mercury thermometers, and no under the tongue/arm temps ...

Back to business: Salar, Uyuni, birthday, and decisión. I think I'll start with the decisión since it's a pretty big one! After about 4 weeks placement, I began thinking about perhaps going back to Switzerland for my next placement. Principal reason: this on sucks, to put it bluntly. It is not necessarily their fault. But I think a lot more communication should have happened before I came. I had tried twice to specify a Little about the placements. But recieved no reply. Which ...

What a lovely week! Ok, so it started off completely stressful and hectic, but I love how it always seems that way at the time. Last friday, I snuck off from work early so I could catch the 15:30 bus to Oruro (which I had "verbally" booked...hmmm), from where I was gonna go straight onto Uyuni to do my Salar tour. But got there, and the woman who I had "verbally" booked with informed me that I wouldn't get on the 15:30 but the 16:30 bus, assuring me I'd be in Oruro in time for ...

... seg for aa flytte til Cochabamba. Han var veldig interessert i aa hoere om hvordan den norske velferdstaten fungerte, og vi loeste dessuten en hel haug av verdens problemer, deriblant den oekonomiske krisa! Fornoeyd med aa ha faatt en ny venn i Cochabamba, dro jeg tilbake til hostellet utpaa ettermiddagen og satt i sola og leste litt pensum. (Maa jo det ogsaa, naar jeg lever paa studielaan...) Dagen etter dro jeg tidlig til bussterminalen og kjoepte en billett for aa dra til Sucre ...

... from different kids and so i could only really stop the worst methods and let the others slide. In exchange for this attention the kids have given me nits! It wasnt all hard work, though, and the kids were really affectionate. Most of them would run and hug me when i arrived and two grils would actually shake with excitement. Even though i found it hard to understand what they were saying (an adult is pretty hard for me, but its so much harder when ...

After the horrid-smelling and cold 12 hour nightbus journey in total, from Uyuni to Cochabamba, I finally arrived. I had barely slept, since the seats in the bus from Uyuni to Oruro vibrated so badly, I was sure my brain would suffer some permanent damage if I'd lay my head back, after the constant 8 hours hard vibration - do I didn't. Then was the smelly pee-blanket-man next to me from Oruro to Cochabamba and on the otherside of the hallway two ladies ...