Hi!
Now we know it has been an extremely long time since our last post, so to all our regular readers we do apologise and will get back into a regular posting routine from now on. Tim and I start school tomorrow, with a slightly different allocation to what we thought. Tim will teach Grade 6 part time and Grade 7 and 8 Socials, while I am teaching Grade 7 and 8 English and Grade 11 and 12 Socials – we’re looking forward to meeting our new students.
We are back into baby washing and have been kept busy buying the clothes, through people giving us donations. We are also happy to have our friend Michael, from university days, with us here in Bolivia for four months filling in as our school P.E teacher. Michael just finished PE teaching in July and had some spare time, so decided to come on over! It’s been great having another Aussie around.
During July, we had another lot of travels – so instead of filling in all the details, I thought I’d show our travels through pictures. We started in Cochabamba with Tim’s parents and had a four day trip through the South- Western circuit of Bolivia. We drove 900kms through desert and amazing landscapes.
Wild vicunas walking by a lake in the desert
We then headed to Potosi for an eye-opening trip to the mines, where we met 15yr olds working in appalling conditions, with toxic gasses for up to 10 hrs a day for a total of $120 a month. We will write a separate blog about this.
To Sucre, a night in Santa Cruz and then it was off to Argentina to Buenos Aires – a city of 15 million people with beautiful architecture, great coffee shops and a world famous soccer stadium.
The Congressional Building in B.A
La Boca
At La Bombonera - the home of La Boca Juniors
We also had three nights in Iguazu – a 2 hr flight from B.A – to see some of the most amazing falls in the world.
We had an absolutely amazing trip and it was great to be able to do it with Tim’s parents and to utilise our Spanish – we think it helped having to use it so much!
Anyway – it is back to life in Cochabamba, but we are in for a different semester with lots of new teachers, classes and maybe new ministries. More updates and ‘Food of the week’ will be coming shortly.
- Liz
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