Diplomat Cochabamba

... to make their Christo 33 meters and a few centimeters, arguing that Christ lived for 33 years and a little bit. It really does look pretty cool, but it is hard not to laugh since it is such an obvious rip off.

Anyway, we wanted to head up to the statue which would afford us a grand view of the city. Unfortunately it was Monday, the one day of the week that the cable car does not run. Shucks. We were also told that hiking up would ...

... sleep a rare thing and i also have a broken window so it gets v cold in my room at nite!! but i need to stop complaining as im only living like this for a month, this is life for them; probably forever. Its just hard for a foreigner to adapt when you have experienced the good things. For them they know nothing else. I try to bare this in mind when i work at the orphanage coz it can really get u down. The worst thing is that there is no basic hygiene and ...

... twice and to the theatre to see some great Bolivian folkdances from all over the country.

Then Joel came and joined me for a couple of days. Really nice to get a feel for a place after so many short stops. I fear I have now been spoilt for the rest of the trip!

... some 34 meters (excluding the podium on which it stands). It has a plain beauty and is hollowed out inside allowing people to climb up into Cristo up into his head and down and along one of his sleeves. The views from here really give you a sense of the city. We also went to "Tarata" a beautiful little town 33km Soth-East of Cochabamba. It has a delightful square and interesting little museum full of fossils and much more ...

... 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 ...

... are not recommended to walk up the trail to the statue anymore, as the area is dangerous and should be visited going with a taxi to the top. Many, many tourists have been assaulted walking the pathway up - sometimes worse.

The guys, Jaime and Ruddy, took my out for some drinks that night in Cochabamba. We went from a bar, to another, to another where we went to sing karaoke - not me of course, since I'm just about the worst singer there is, and ...