1 week to go...

I am left with only a week here in Bolivia and I feel like there is just so much to share…yeah that’s right I have a few lovely stories to share with you fine readers! Just when I thought all the fun was coming to an end. Well, first off I am feeling a lot better after I was just sick for awhile. I had a bad cold for a solid week that led into something else. I made it just about eight months without visiting the clinic until my last few weeks here. So, yes I went to the clinic to see if there was something wrong with me. What a process! The first day I went in there they gave me a shot in the butt for the nausea and achy body…I don’t know that it really helped because I continued to feel nauseous for a few days after. Then I needed to give a stool sample right after so they could see if I had a parasite or something rumbling around in my stomach. Go figure I had nothing to give that day and so the next day I was able to give them a fun little sample. Then that day was a “ferriada,” where people don’t usually work, so nobody could give me any results until the following morning. So, we came back the next morning to get my results and meet with the doctor after he told me that everything looks normal, but I told him that I sure didn’t feel normal. He said that it must have been something I ate that made me feel bad or some kind of virus that had a relation with my serious cold! Praise God that I didn’t have anything…it was probably good that I got tested to know if there was anything at all, so if there was something I could get treated here, because one they know what they are dealing with and two it would be a whole heck of a lot cheaper here! Thank you for Kate too (my awesome Australian friend) that drove me around every where and helped with just about anything…she kinda rocks!

This past Friday I took a few of the new girls down to the post office area and on our way back we wanted to stop at the internet cafe. We of course were stuck on a super packed Trufi, to the point where people were literally hanging off the door! When I went to go sit down at internet I noticed there was a rip in my purse. Let me just tell you that I had just bought this purse for about $5 and had only been carrying it for about 3 days…I was super bummed because I really liked it! I thought to myself, how on earth did I manage to rip it like that. I went to go pay for my internet time and just could not find my wallet anywhere in my purse. We were just convinced that I stuck it in one of my shopping bags or something crazy like that, so I waited to search my bags until we got back to the hacienda. Yeah, silly me….as we examined my purse and the previous situation, someone definitely took a razor or knife to my purse. The cut was just way too perfect for a rip…plus it was cut through two layers and a perfect opening to slip out my wallet. Unfortunately this kind of thing happens all the time. I had taken my wallet out on the Trufi to pay and someone was probably watching me the whole entire time. And it makes sense because the Trufi was completely packed and I couldn’t feel a thing! Bummer! The some what fortunate thing is that I have two wallets…one wallet is for my support money and the other one is my personal money with my credit card. The wallet with just the support money got taken…I had 300 Bolivianos in there, which amounts to about $45 (which is a good amount of money here) along with my driver’s license, so I won’t be driving for awhile when I return! Ya know this kind of stuff happens so what can you do? Then the following day the same thing happened to one of the new interns when we were walking down a street to the Saturday market…but I feel bad for her because her new camera got taken and that is not as easy to replace, because instead of it being 300 B’s your talking $300! And here is a photo of my beautifully razor cut purse...