One week +

I've now been in Bolivia for just over a week and so far it has been different than either of my previous trips. Especially at the project. Lucho and Lorna are entrusting me with more responsibility and giving me more free reign to develop the computer program as I see fit, which means I have some planning to do. Fortunately my friend Mary Lynn who is in charge of the Secondary School is returning tomorrow and she hopefully will help in prioritizing things and help me to see what is most important.

I went out this week to buy my uniforms for school, all of the students and staff wear special uniforms, so since I'm joining the staff, I need to fit in. I bought 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants for only ~$40, so I was feeling pretty good about that, since in the States it would cost well over $100. Ah, the benefits of the third world . . .

My Spanish is much better than last week when I clumsily muttled through with people. I'm now conversing a lot with my colleagues and able to think faster than before. The brain is still working overtime, but its nice to switch back to English at night for dinner at Lucho/Lorna's.

We've also had two "sur" cold fronts since I have been here. We had one while I was in Santa Cruz and the other came yesterday and brought a lot of rain, the street almost flooded because it was coming down so fast. And this was as I was walking to morning devotionals!

Lucho feels enlightened as I've showed him the "bcc" field in emails. He said he feels like he has come out of the cave and joined the rest of 21st century computer people. Anyway, that's all for now!