Apart-Hotel Anteus Cochabamba

... and soccer from the local kids, teaching occasional english classes as well as learning a traditional dance which our students then performed on the despidida, or final send off party. As much hard work as we put into our stay, I get the feeling that our group took away just as much from the experience. For this, I am grateful.<br><br> Keep your eyes open for tales from the jungle, coming soon.<br><br>Thanks for following, and best to everyone.<br><br>Andrew<br>

... was v hard to breathe up there at times, coz there isnt enough oxygen, i felt a bit sick during the night and it was also FREEZING in bed, even thou i had 6 layers on!! the following day was quite hot thou, so it changes quite dramatically!! it was a 10 hour bus journey to get there during the night and then we obv took a boat, had to watch out for theives again coz they areeverywhere and ppl ...

... without me picking it up at any stage!!<br>As you probably know , im not a huge fan of flying so of course i didnt say no to another free glass of wine!!haha. i havent been too anxious , although i am wondering why aeroplanes are white if the clouds are white, could anybody tell me plz??surely if they were bright red or something we would be more visable to other planes and i would feel a lot saferrite now???!!Just a thought.

... best idea in the world to visit already compromised children i decided. Oh well. I tried and very clearly failed at my volunteering attempt, but of course the intention was there and i guess that is the main thing.<br><br>Otherwise, i came to love Cochabamba... Especially the market: La Cancha... where everything you could possibly want or need being there for the buying, and make the most of that we did, with Barb and I visiting ...

... Our second swine-related encounter comes a week later as we are asked to step aside having just got off our flight from Cochabamba to Sucre. Here we had to fill out a long form and declare whether we were experiencing cough or fever - all a bit farcical! If you want to catch a film Wednesday is the best day for it as it´s 2 for 1 - a super bargain at 2 pounds fifty for both of us! We saw the film "the boy with the ...

... volunteers recent hospital experience), and thus i was to wait until the following week when test results will return, and i am able to volunteer without fear of catching the flu. In the meantime, i managed to find myself taking a visit to one of the local health centres, providing primary health care to around 40,000 Cochabambinos, many of whom were quite young, had numerous children, limited if any education, and therefore minimal knowledge of ...

... such as how much? how long? when do we leave/arrive? I think 6 months would be a sufficient amount of time in South America, along with a few courses here and there to pick up the language. We quiz each other most days on new words, but still have lots to learn. We are headed to the big Bolivian capital of La Paz next, which is quite exicting. And Machu Pichu is just around the corner!!! I have also added up our bus hours, and we are at 110 hours, with many more to go!

... out stinky rotten egg air at an impressive speed, or huge dangerous steaming pools of bubbling silver stuff. Apparently gets up to 130 degress! No thanks! A more tempting 37 degree termal bath was waiting for us at our breakfast spot - bliss! It was pretty freezing up there, so the thought of getting half naked wasn't the most exciting thing in the world. But it was SO worth it! The bath is really just a walled off and cleaned out part of another mighty stinky laguna, but it ...

... Etter 5 min var jeg omringa av nysgjerrige folk. Jose, en eldre herremann paa 52, fortalte meg at det ikke var saa ofte at turister kom og satte seg ned, at de fleste pleide aa komme i taxi, ta bilder av plazaen og dra videre. han introduserte meg for alle vennene sine, dvs alle som satt paa benkene rundt oss, og fortalte at han hadde jobbe for Evo Morales´ kampanje. Da jeg fortalte at jeg studerte statsvitenskap og latin-amerikastudier ble han veldig nysgjerrig og inviterte meg paa ...

Today I left the orphanage where i've worked now for 7 weeks. My entire job description was to give the older kids (3-5 years old but walking, talking, and toilet trained (mostly!)) some much needed attention, and they really needed it! There are over 50 kids in those two rooms, looked after by two 'mamas' who are mostly busy sorting them out with clothes, food, tidying and cleaning (yep i'm acknowledging a difference mum) the rooms and washing the kids to ...